Like some teens, I had a bit of trouble settling into a routine this summer – spent time with my son who was here…and got back into photography and now am part of a show opening this week…..<\/p>\n
Okay – now it’s time to settle back into a work routine…just like I did when I was a teenager. I was better at managing my time then because my mother took care of all those little details like paying household bills, shopping and cooking. I was a typical teen who did not appreciate any of that – not until I lived on my own.<\/p>\n
The teen in your life probably does not appreciate what you do either – my own son, who heard me talk about this [as I taught about teens], did not heed the message either : ). He had “money shock” when he first lived on his own and had to buy and cook the food, and pay the rent and utilities.<\/p>\n
Is there a way to get our teens to learn this? Maybe; we can teach it, talk it and do all sorts of showing them – but I really do believe the the brain does not really register what we say – they can repeat it back and we think they “get it.” Maybe they do – but we don’t see it in action until they live on their own….I am an example that shows even when you “get it” you don’t always pay attention to “it.”<\/p>\n
The one message I got and my son got – was to eat healthy food. Honestly I am not sure why that messagae “took” for me or for him – but with all the recent news on obesity in the USA and the world, I am glad we both got that message….Eating well and healthily is a good message to get across as often as you can – your life and that of your child and grandchild depends on it….<\/p>\n
From an ongoing conference on obesity comes this message:<\/p>\n
“Obesity is an international scourge,” Professor Paul Zimmet, the chairman of the meeting of more than 2500 experts and health officials, told delegates in a speech opening the International Congress on Obesity. <\/span><\/p>\n “This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world.” <\/span>“It’s as big a threat as global warming and bird flu,” said Zimmet, an Australian expert on diabetes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span> Like some teens, I had a bit of trouble settling into a routine this summer – spent time with my son who was here…and got back into photography and now am part of a show opening this week….. Okay – now it’s time to settle back into a work routine…just like I did when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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