Children’s Well-being currently stands at a ten year Low, when problems start, they struggle to get help or do not know where to turn. I think it’s safe to say we all want our children and young people to lead a happy healthy life, to feel good about themselves and be able to be safe.

Well-being is described as how we feel about ourselves and evaluate our lives as a whole.

A Low Well-being has been linked to mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. Health is one of the top things that people say matters to well-being and a good health is linked with higher life satisfaction.

It’s is extremely important to understand what effects our children’s well-being, A healthy balanced lifestyle is key for their personal well-being, achieving and maintaining growth and to leading a happy healthy life.

Let’s look at the below areas that can affect our children’s Health and Well-being

Diet and Nutrition

A Healthy balanced diet is essential when growing up, ensuring our children drink enough Water and consume a High Fibre, low GI Carbohydrate diet including – Protein, small amount of dairy, good fats and plenty of Fruit and Vegetables is a great way to start this will stimulate physical and psychological development underpinning brain development. This is a time when general eating habits are formed. We are all human and my children do eat some sweets and the odd fizzy drinks, but I do ensure I moderate them!

Rest, Recovery and Sleep.

Every child needs to rest and recover and get a good night’s sleep, lack of sleep and rest can contribute to anxiety and depression. The body has a basic physiological need to rejuvenate, repair, grow and this is equally as important as a balanced diet.

Embrace the Outdoors.

It’s good for your mind and body – Recent trials have found that outdoor exercise and walking in nature is associated with an increase in energy and revitalization as well as decreased confusion, anger, depression and tension compared to when exercising indoors. It makes you feel better about yourself. Research from the University of Essex confirms that when working out in the green environment it improves your self-esteem. Soak up the sunshine benefits. Get that well deserved Vitamin D3, it’s important to your children’s bone growth, health and metabolic function.

Technology

Social media and modern technology have taken over our lives. It can have a positive effect and a negative effect, and we all need to take a break at times, and this includes our children. Whether it is giving them set times on computers, TV’s or iPad remember its really important look after their health and well-being and too much time sat in front of modern technology can affect this!

Play Time

Play allows children to develop their imagination and use their creativity. Play is so important to a healthy brain development. Its through play that children of a young age learn how to engage and interact with the world around them.

Love, affection, and support

It is important for our children to feel good about themselves when they feel valued and know that someone is special to them and acknowledges their efforts, this promotes positive relationships, strength, boosts their self-esteem and helps towards independence. Feeling of love and affection appear to have a number of health benefits including stabilising your moods and the release of the hormone oxytocin can have a positive effect on the way your children feel.

Listening to your Children

Listening is always the first step in solving problems, it is very important to listen to your children and encourage them to talk to you. Giving opportunities to experience a rich language environment to express themselves, speak and listen, even stimulate curiosity about nature or the wider environment, this will strengthen your bond, It encourages Open Communication, Builds self-esteem, Develops social skills and creates emotional awareness.

Health and hygiene

It’s very important to Establish a daily Health and Hygiene routine for body care, eg, brushing your teeth, bathing, hand washing and also your nail hygiene these habits need to be reinforced and taught in the early years to protect against infections, illness and germs, doing this also helps children develop independence, responsibility and boosts self-esteem.

Routine

Everyone needs a routine as this provides a high level of stability which will promote confidence, structure and resilience towards challenges in life. You can change the content of the routine to ensure the children have fun!

Fun and Smiles!

Let’s not forget our children need to have fun in their lives as do we as adults, I think we all love spending our time with our friends socialising. Having fun and doing things they enjoy that make them smile are key to any routine, its

Important to ensure we make this happen. Having fun smiling and enjoying ourselves can make our children smarter, healthier, and more confident. 

Lets help and support our children of today to build a better future for tomorrow!’

Mr Sean Molino BCA

Director Forces Fitness Ltd

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Your Health And Wellbeing

Sean Molino BCA is a former British Army Soldier serving within the Welsh Guards as a Physical Training Instructor. He runs a Multi Award Winning Health and Well-being consultancy that have appeared on Multiple TV series, Forces Fitness Ltd.

As 2020 and 2021 seems to be the year of Lockdowns and all Fitness and Leisure facilities have been forced to shut on a number of occasions it is so Important to understand how to stay on top of your health and well-being.

Long before this pandemic, we all knew that physical activity boosted our health and ability to resist and overcome illness. That conclusion hasn’t changed. In fact, it’s more relevant now than ever.

Please find below Sean’s top tips that can help you!

1 – Stay Active

This doesn’t necessarily mean beasting yourself in a Military Circuit! My advice is to try and stay active 3 times a week. This could take shape in any forms from walking, jogging, walking up and down your stairs, home circuit or yoga. The important thing is that you are staying active and enjoying it! A great example that I can give you is if you like photography then get that camera out, get out for a walk and do what you love whilst staying active. Whatever your age or fitness level there is an activity you can do.

2- Embrace the outdoors

It’s good for your mind and body – Recent trials have found that outdoor exercise is associated with an increase in energy and revitalization as well as decreased confusion, anger, depression and tension compared to when exercising indoors. It makes you feel better about yourself. Research from the University of Essex confirms that when working out in the green environment it improves your self esteem. Soak up the sunshine benefits. Get that well deserved Vitamin D3 from your outdoor sessions, it’s important to your bone health and metabolic function.

3 – Keep Learning

It’s very important to try new things and keep learning. Continued learning through life enhances self-esteem and encourages social interaction and a more active life. Every year I try something new and keep learning both through accredited courses, CPD courses or even just learning new training techniques or challenges that can help me.

4- Give back and support others

People who support and help others are more likely to rate themselves as happy. You can support and help people in many ways from giving advice to people if you’re qualified to do so, listening, having a chat if you see someone is down or even supporting and helping financially like many Fundraisers do!

5 – Give yourself a break from Technology

Social media and modern technology has taken over our lives. It can have a positive effect and also a negative effect and we all need to take a break at times. Whether it’s not watching the news or taking a break from Social media especially if you find yourself reacting to it and it putting you in a bad mood, remember look after yourself and your health and well-being!

6- Surround yourself with people who will help and support you and your life journey

Get rid of those people who constantly put you down and are always on your back, This goes for face to face and online. If there’s people on your social media that only pop up to argue or constantly criticize you, get rid of them. They are not worth your time and definitely not worth them having an effect on your mental Health. Have a network of people who you can trust and champion you to others and also support you when you needed them.

7 – A Healthy Diet

A healthy diet can protect the human body against certain types of diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. A good diet has a huge impact on our overall well-being and keeping us feeling fresh and in a good mood!

My main top tips are to eat natural as best possible by consuming a High Fibre, low GI Carbohydrate diet including – Protein, small amount of dairy, good fats and plenty of Fruit and Vegetables.

  • Try and drink 2-3 Litres of Water each day
  • Aim to eat 7-9 Fruit and Vegetables a day ( Remember 80 grams = 1 Portion)
  • Choose wholemeal over white when looking at bread, pasta and rice.
  • Fish is a great source of Omega 3, Good Fats and Protein ( I try to consume it atleast twice a week)
  • Cut down on your Fizzy Drinks intake
  • Aim to be good 80% of the time, we are all allowed a treat and a lso some time out.Don’t let your diet run your life.

Lastly there’s no magic formula however I’ve certainly found that over the years the above have definitely helped me in my life journey and I’m sure if you follow the above they can help you too especially maintaining a good health and well-being!

Positivity breeds positivity Mr Sean A Molino BCA

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