Champion Mom - Teaching Your Children About Self-Care

By: bchauveau Sunday February 13, 2022 comments

Self-care is essential to maintaining your mental and physical health, regardless of age. However, self-care is especially important when it comes to the health and well-being of our children. Therefore, we must be sure that we are teaching our youth about self-care.

Talking About Self-Care

It is important that we as parents teach our children that self-care is a positive thing. To do this, we should set the example and make sure that they understand what self-care really means. Self-care starts when you take the time to really check in with how you are feeling physically, emotionally, and mentally. Self-care for kids is about them learning how to identify those needs and figuring out how to meet them. It may be reading a book, running around outside, or taking a long bubble bath but whatever it is, it should always come from an honest place of self-awareness.

Tying Self-Care Into Overall Health & Wellness

Unfortunately, many of us don’t recognize our need for self-care until the point that we are in a stressful situation. One of the best things you can do for your child is help them understand that their feelings aren’t wrong, and that self-care is a vital part of anyone’s life. The health and well-being of our children should always come first, but it’s important to teach them that they’re not alone in struggling with their emotions and dealing with mental health difficulties.

Role-Modeling Self-Care

Ultimately, a parent’s role may not be to teach their children self-care. Rather, a parent’s job might be to facilitate self-care for their children. This might mean helping them realize that practicing self-care is a good idea, demonstrating how it works and why, then giving them the space to practice it on their own. Only once they have started down this path themselves can parents let go, confident that they have taught their child what they need to know to take care of themselves in the future.

We know that self-care isn’t an easy thing to role model for our children, but we also know that it’s crucial that we do - especially with the help of the self-care strategies I’ve outlined above. The trick to determining whether they’re working is to remember that self-care is a process and not an immediate result. But by trying out these strategies in everyday life, we help make it easier for our children to learn how to care for themselves well beyond childhood.

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