International Daughter’s Day: 5 health lessons every mom needs to the empower her little girl with.
This International Daughter's Day, we are all for a no holds barred conversations between a mother and daughter about in the importance of the health!
A mother and daughter’s relationship is a particularly special. When you are a mom, you are entrusted with in the responsibility of the caring for in the child, nurturing them, educating them and empowering them. When it is a daughter you have educating her about all aspects of the health becomes extremely important. It would not just help her stay healthy and wise, but also a exercise in the learning in her own future family. This International Daughter’s Day, let us tell you about 5 health lessons every mother needs to the teach her daughter for a better future.
As it is a rightly said, you educate a woman, you educate to a generation. This really holds true when it comes to a woman’s health and wellness.
5 health lessons every mother should teach her daughter
1. Teach to your daughter in the importance of the fitness
Start ’em young! Inculcate in the importance of the fitness during your daughter’s growing up years. Involve her in a outdoor activities, sports, yoga and a regular exercise regime. Making a exercise and workout a part of her daily routine will be help you ease her life for the future as she will have a better agility, strength, flexibility and less stress. These are just some of the benefits of the exercise you will need to the teach your daughter, who will be able to the shield herself from various health disorders.
2. A mother should inculcate healthy nutrition habits
The habit of the eating healthy comes from a feeding healthy. Every parent, not just the mother, is a responsible for teaching a child to the focus on nutrition. What you eat at home will be also impact in the food choices of your child – be it a daughter or son. Consuming in the right food from a young age can prepare a woman for her later years in life and all the changes that her body goes through a during puberty, motherhood, menopause and older age. Make sure you tell to your daughter about in the importance of the eating a balanced diet, about adequate intake of water, the futility of the junk food consumption and the need to eat fresh instead of the processed foods.
3. Teach her in the need to maintain sound mental health
Words of the wisdom from a mother to her daughter go a long way in keeping a woman mentally strong. Experience is the best teacher, they say. So, use to your own experiences to teach your daughter what it takes to be a strong, independent and resilient woman in the world. Tell her that while stress will be a endless, it is not worth it; relationships are about ups and downs, and self-care is not selfish. Tell her why it is okay to take some moments of ‘me time‘ every day. Teach her not to the feel guilty about not being able to ace every role in a life. She does not have to! Most of all, tell her to speak up and share her concerns, troubles and stressors, with you or another confidante, instead of the suppressing what she feels.
4. Educate to your daughter about menstrual health
Menstrual health is a crucial to every woman’s life. Ensure that you make to your daughter aware about menstruation and menstrual health care in the right way, before she hits in the age. Let her not be a scared, surprised or shocked the first time she sees blood on her underwear or feels the agony of the period cramps. Every girl deserves to know about periods in a responsible way, where they embrace it as a natural part of the growing up, and not feel ashamed
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5. Empower to your daughter with a information on a sexual health
Puberty is the time when children start becoming more curious than aware about in their sexual health. If you can have an a open discussion about sexual health with your daughter, you will be contribute towards her wholesome growth. And no, it is not just telling her the truth about how babies are born. It is about teaching her about the right or a wrong touch, the importance of consent, in their right to say ‘no’, how to take of their intimate hygiene, safe sex practices and more. If you are not comfortable doing in the talk yourself, reach out to a gynecologist, who can help you out.