Healthy Resolutions for Kids {Giveaway}

Have you made resolutions for yourself, perhaps to live a better, healthier life? Do you make family resolutions? How about resolutions for your children? My girls are still pretty young, but there are things I hope, dream, and pray for them this year. I want Miss A to do well in school, I want Lil C to flourish as her own individual, and of course I hope that they are both loving, caring people who think of others, among many, many other traits and values.

In general, my girls are pretty healthy when it comes to eating, being active, and overall health, which we are very blessed by. However, there are always improvements we like to make to continue to give them the best lives possible, and I’m guessing if you’re still reading this post, you may have a special child(ren) in your life that you care about as well.

Here are some of my personal tips that I’ve used to encourage health in my girls lives and also some that we will begin to implement and work on.

Get Active!

Whether you participate or not {strongly recommended}, take your kiddos to the park, enroll them in sports classes, go for a family hike. It’s great for them physically, but also builds confidence, if done in a group encourages social growth, and makes them happier *see endorphins.

Have Fun with Food

We like to make food faces on pancakes, drink out of fun straws, cook together, make mustaches out of everything, especially milk and color our foods with food coloring to brighten up any plate.

Enrich their Lives

Give your child opportunities to volunteer, and learn about a senese of community. Visit museums and historical landmarks. Let them express themselves through art, dance, writing, help them find their best means of self-expression and celebrate it!

Make Healthier Choices

Trade out treats for fruits, hide veggies where the kids will least expect it, and make sure your children get plenty of hormone-free calcium. Since Lil’ C was 1 year old we’ve been trying to get her to drink milk, any kind of milk, soy, almond, chocolate, and used every trick in the book, we’ve given it a few months and just last night at dinner, because “sissy” LOVES milk {and if I could caps the LOVES even bigger I would, I have not seen a child who enjoys milk more than Miss A} we offered Lil’ C a medicine cup of Smart Balance® Kids Milk and she drank it! Baby steps!!! In the long run we’ve seen our girls make healthier choices on their own and hope they continue to have the desire to be healthy in all aspects of their lives. {See left photo, “Save a turkey! Eat a brocolli”, even though it’s not exact spelling, I was happily surprised to see this come home with Miss A.}

What healthy resolutions would you like to make for your own children? If you’re not already giving your kids Smart Balance® Kids Milk, here are some reasons I personally would like you to check out and consider the switch.

All varieties of Smart Balance® Kids Milks offer calcium and extra Vitamin D to support strong bones; as well as DHA and EPA Omega-3s to help support brain and heart health with two glasses a day. The milks are produced from cows with no artificial growth hormones.

Children ages 12 months to 24 months have their own, specially formulated milk with prebiotics, iron and other essentials for growing toddlers.

Smart Balance® Kids Milk come in three varieties and is sold at all Harris Teeter grocery store locations.

And last but not least, these milks are available for one lucky MommyBKnowsBest.com reader to WIN!

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This is a compensated post, however all thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are my own honest opinions. I am excited to bring Smart Balance Kids into my own home and yours as well. As always your opinions may vary, but if you like me you’ll try it