April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month - 30 Tips and Facts in 30 Days

With certainty, fattening kids up by making them overweight/obese is child abuse.

Nutritional child abuse is the most common form of child abuse of which we are aware. About one-third of all kids are overweight or obese. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month in the USA. To help these children, who are arguably the most abused on earth, Fitness Watch will offer 30 tips and facts – one for each day in April – directed at saving the children. Even if you are not from the USA, these facts and tips can help you and your children, too.

Today’s Tip – Sure, you think you want to be your child’s friend. But is that all? And at what cost?

First and foremost you have to be the parent.

Unlike friends who can come and go or say “good-bye” and head home, you and your child are united forever.

Using food as a reward is not the way to build a relationship. If the only reason you and your kid continue to relate is because you offer-up food as a bonding agent, there is something fundamentally wrong.

Plus the association of food with reward threatens to become a lifelong fixation that can only lead to a bad outcome.

Do not get into the habit of using food as a reward or pacifier and if you have already made that mistake, start putting an end to it.