Tips

How to Be A Role Model

Make changes together with children.

• Let children see you eating healthy and being physically active.
• Join children in doing the positive behaviors being promoted.
• Use shared experiences with new behaviors to establish a new routine for the entire household.
• Maintain constant and open communication between the adults in the household. This helps to build and maintain the consistency that children thrive on.

When making changes, make them as a household unit.

• Have a family meeting to make agreements on what behaviors will change. 
  • "We need to eat more vegetables."
• Post rules that everyone can agree on.
  • "Everyone will eat 2 vegetables each day."
• Make it fun!
  • "We will take turns choosing a new vegetable at the store to try each week."