The document outlines strategies for parents to foster healthy lifestyles in their children, emphasizing the importance of parental involvement and effective communication skills. It provides action steps for addressing childhood obesity, establishing healthy habits, and creating an encouraging environment for physical activity and nutritious eating. Key components include monitoring weight, avoiding restrictive diets, and fostering positive relationships with children regarding food and activity choices.

1. Parenting HEALTHY Kids

2. Lack of parenting skills and structure have a negative impact

3. Parents are agents for change

4. Embrace healthy behaviors and communication skills

5. Healthy Action Step #1: Why should I be concerned about my family’s lifestyle?

6. How do I know if my child is overweight?

7. What is the health impact?

8. What is BMI?

9. Obese >95th Overweight 85th-94th Normal weight 5th-84th Underweight <5th Weight Status BMI Percentile by Age Classification of Children and Adolescents Weight Status by BMI Percentile

10. What does BMI have to do with health?

11. What causes children to become overweight?

12. There are biological factors to becoming overweight

13. There are cognitive factors to becoming overweight

14. There are environmental factors to becoming overweight

15. Here are five reasons kids gain weight…

16. Here are five reasons kids gain weight…

17. Here are five reasons kids gain weight…

18. Here are five reasons kids gain weight…

19. Here are five reasons kids gain weight…

20. Action plan: Start by monitoring the Big 5

21. Action plan: Rate your readiness on a scale of 1-10

22. Healthy Action Step #2: Where do I start?

23. Why should your child not be on a diet?

24. Diets can interfere with children’s physical development

25. Parental restrictions on eating can have negative consequences

26. Imposing diets can lead to weight gain in later life

27. Start with your own eating and activity patterns

28. Reflect on your childhood beliefs

29. Identify feelings, beliefs and opinions about food

30. Identify feelings, beliefs and opinions about physical activity

31. Identify feelings, beliefs and opinions about body image

32. Identify feelings, beliefs and opinions about parenting

33. Action plan: Establish two family rules

34. Action plan: Rate importance on a scale of 1-10

35. Healthy Action Step #3: Establish healthy habits for your family

36. Divide responsibilities

37. What is the parents’ responsibility?

38. What is the parents’ responsibility? Plan the type of food you should buy and have in your home. Prepare healthy food options for mealtimes and snack times. Provide healthy food options in a positive way.

39. What is the children’s responsibility?

40. What is the children’s responsibility? Choose whether to eat or not. Choose what to eat from variety of healthy food options. Choose how much to eat at scheduled mealtimes and snacks.

41. Create a family blueprint

42. Identify family structure and habits

43. What parenting skills will you use?

44. How will you change your family and home environment?

45. How will you role model healthy behaviors?

46. Action plan: Four key strategies to encourage healthy habits

47. Action plan: Track progress with behavior changes

48. Healthy Action Step #4: Establish an environment that supports healthy eating and physical activity

49. Take the home environment quiz

50. Why are family habits important?

51. Key family habits are encouraged

52. Look at your current meal/snack structure

53. Aim for 60 minutes of physical activity per day

54. Consider doing physical activity as a family

55. What’s the F.I.T.T. principle?

56. Limit screen time to less than one hour per day

57. Fitting in physical activity is a challenge

58. What are your family’s barriers to being active?

59. Come up with strategies to overcome these barriers

60. Plan your family’s physical activity schedule

61. Healthy Action Step #5: Learn what healthy eating really means

62. What do healthy meals look like?

63. How do you plan healthy meals?

65. How do I know if I should give my child a snack?

66. Plan for snacks

67. What are some snack ideas and choices for kids?

68. Recognize snack hunger cues

69. Look at how small changes can make a big difference

70. Learn to read food labels

71. Limit sweetened drinks

72. What is hunger awareness?

73. Healthy Action Step #6: Your Toolbox to a Healthier Family: Parenting Skills and Healthy Communication

74. What is your style of parenting?

75. Giving orders?

76. Giving in?

77. Giving choices?

78. Build positive relationships with your children

79. Show respect

80. Have fun

81. Give encouragement

82. Show love

83. Listen and talk to your child

84. Speak with respect

85. Use I-Messages

86. Look for the real problem

87. Give choices

88. Be careful when you are angry

89. Be ready to listen

90. Rate your confidence on a scale of 1-10

91. Contact me!