You Cannot Lead where you will not Go...

“You cannot teach what you do not know.  You cannot lead where you will not go.”

This is one of my favorite quotes that I remember hearing at a business training this past year and it really resonated with me.  I bring this up because it seems like more and more we are hearing about the rise of obesity in our country and the worst part is that it is not just us adults.  It is our children too.  I realize that this is not necessarily a positive, fun topic, but I believe it is something that if each of us takes the time to enrich ourselves with the right knowledge, we can make a difference starting with ourselves and move that to our families and from there to our communities.  As parents, coaches and mentors it is our duty to teach our youth about proper nutrition and exercise.  This is where my quote from earlier comes in.  I just read this article about children and obesity and there were some tips in there.  I realized that a lot of the reason kids have these habits is because we are allowing them to do it or we are doing it ourselves.  Therefore, why would your child do something you are not willing to do?  I have read quite a few articles recently and am going to start posting them and commenting on them.  I am going to improve my knowledge and pass that along to you for you to pass it along to your family.  It is important to remember that when reading anything you need to take it at face value.  One of the things I like to do is to take 1 or 2 things from the article and incorporate it into my life.  Be open minded, but don’t take everything too serious.

What do you think of this article?  Do you have any bad habits that you see your kids picking up on?