NTM 495: Sweet Christmas and New Year? Managing Kids’ Sugar Highs and Lows

Nourishing the Mother

The festive sugar load can have us spinning into anxiety, apprehension and control, so let’s talk with Naturopath Jess from Natural Super Kids on how to move away from perfect and make change accessible to all of us. Tune in for practical tips, mum advice, and simple solutions to sugar-swings.
In this episode we discuss:
- Moving away from ‘perfect’ and optimising your child’s nutritional balance
- Recognising nuance and your individual child’s limits
- Loosening up our boundaries around sugar and feeling into our own experience of that
- Sinking into the realisation that the best lessons are the ones they learn on their own
- Recognising where your “I can’t let you have more sugar/stay up late etc” is because you can’t be with what’s on the other side of that choice.
- Having internal flexibility around their sugar intake is possible when you can maintain a healthy base of good quality protein, healthy fats and complex carbohydrates.
- The effect of sugar on our kids’ microbiome, immunity, tummy problems, toilet accidents, skin issues, behaviour and mood changes.
- Pimping up their meals with protein
- ‘Division of responsibility’ approach and how it takes the pressure off parents
- Reducing stress and control around meals
- Struggling to hold our kids’ disappointment
- The importance of hydration
Jessica Donovan is a mum of two, Naturopath and founder of Natural Super Kids who helps mums raise super kids with healthy food and natural medicines.
She is passionate about educating parents on nourishing their children with real food, helping to boost their health and heal naturally. Jessica combines her extensive naturopathic knowledge with a realistic, empathetic, inspiring and down to earth approach to empower mums to take charge of the wellbeing of their families.
Links
Website https://www.naturalsuperkids.com/
Podcast https://www.naturalsuperkids.com/podcast/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/naturalsuperkids/
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