Setting a good example to my children and being a positive role model were foremost in my mind when I started this blog.
The inspiration for Teach My Children Well originally came from a desire to get fit, lean and strong after one of my littlies commented on my “Fat Belly”.
Children say what they see. And they saw me as being fat.
I don’t think being fat makes me or anyone else a bad person but it’s not how I see myself or how I want my children to see me.
I understand that my children will model my behaviour and that I need to set a good example.
I mean, how can I justify demolishing a huge bar of chocolate every evening when I don’t allow them the same access to the sweet stuff? Seriously though, who wants to be a big fat hypocrite?
I try my hardest not to be the ‘Do As I Say, Not As I Do’ type. If I expect my children to follow a certain pattern of behaviour I have to show them how.
My wife and I attempt to offer our children a balanced diet including plenty of fruit and vegetables. They get treats often enough for them to feel they’re not deprived but they’ve never tasted the sugar coated breakfast cereals and it doesn’t bother them one bit - because they’ve never known any different.
Keeping the sweets and candy for treats and not everyday fare is a big winner. They have learnt not to expect it and will instead eat a piece of fruit.
As with everything, diet is a balancing act and we don’t always get it right as evidenced by the fact that I am around 30lbs overweight.
Why?
Because I don’t follow the same rules I set for for my children and that makes me a hypocrite.
Oh yes it does!
I don’t like it and I’ve resolved to do something about it.
Blog To Fit
I had intended to launch a fitness blog soon after launching this one but I delayed.
I’m glad I did too because it meant I had the chance to get chatting to two of my online friends and after a while we realised we had some things in common:
- A sense of fun
- A sense of humour
- A sense of community
- A desire to get fit
- A desire to help others to get fit
- We’re all around the same age
- We’re all parents
- We all love blogging
So today marks the launch of BlogToFit.com a collaboration between myself, Tara Cain, BloggerDad, Todd & Penguin & Taking Up Space).
Seriously, go and take a look, it’s fabulous!
The design, layout and artwork are all the vision of Dave Wright. He’s a talented guy. Thanks Dave.
I’ve been looking forward to this for a quite some time and I’m ecstatic that it’s underway.
It starts officially on Monday but it’s already live with the comments open.
Please come and join us. We want to cultivate a community of like-minded people who share their goals, progress, fitness problems and successes in an environment of mutual respect and support. You can even take part in the Wednesday Weigh-In, every errr, well, Wednesday. 
Hey, I’m even going to post up some pictures of my improving physique every Thursday. Now that has to be worth the visit just for blackmail purposes.
Hope to see you there.
Dave
Tara Cain, has some news of her own across at her blog, From Dawn Till Rusk. If you’ve enjoyed Tara’s writing I urge you to go there today as she’s saying goodbye to her very entertaining site.
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