Raising Healthy Kids That Love Natural Living

07/01/19 • 62 min

In this episode, we’re talking all about how to raise children that love natural living. Raising healthy kids in a world that regularly gives out sugar as a reward can be challenging but that doesn’t make it any less important.

Don’t feel overwhelmed by this topic. In this podcast, we’ll break down exactly what we do that has helped our children choose healthy habits.

Kids see everything we do, which is why we make sure to include our children into all aspects of our lives.

In fact, actively pursuing our own dreams with God’s leading has matured our children. For example, we involve our kids with Mama Z’s pageants!

Over the years, this has helped them learn to value hard work, perseverance, and good sportsmanship – which is badly needed in today’s society.

Even without such an exciting event, it’s important to do routine daily tasks with our kids too. Everyday things like gardening, cooking, and cleaning can be as important to do together as creating our own natural living traditions for special events, like vacations and holidays.

We share strategies on how we reward our kids for living the natural lifestyle in ways that speak to them and allow them to participate in community activities. We don’t let them cheat with junk food but proactively find ways that encourage our kids to be responsible for their own health.

And we are honest about the reasons for that when they ask difficult questions about it. #HonestyMatters

We want our children to enjoy life. When we work hard, play hard, and honor God around and with our kids, we teach them to live life abundantly!

Episode Highlights:

What’s in our diffuser & praying for our leaders & pastors (2:20)
Your testimonial and reviews (5:15)
Our special announcement - persistence pays off! Thanks to our team. (8:36)
Modeling values for your children (20:39)
Raising kids who love natural living (27:43)
Strategies to raise natural living kids – and gluten-free apple pancakes! (33:33)
Let kids participate in activities but leave out junk food (45:50)
Answering their questions about healthy living (52:20)
Work hard, play hard and honor God as a family (55:16)
Natural living tip and episode wrap (59:52)

Don’t feel overwhelmed by this topic. In this podcast, we’ll break down exactly what we do that has helped our children choose healthy habits.

Kids see everything we do, which is why we make sure to include our children into all aspects of our lives.

In fact, actively pursuing our own dreams with God’s leading has matured our children. For example, we involve our kids with Mama Z’s pageants!

Over the years, this has helped them learn to value hard work, perseverance, and good sportsmanship – which is badly needed in today’s society.

And we are honest about the reasons for that when they ask difficult questions about it. #HonestyMatters

We want our children to enjoy life. When we work hard, play hard, and honor God around and with our kids, we teach them to live life abundantly!

Episode Highlights:

What’s in our diffuser & praying for our leaders & pastors (2:20)
Your testimonial and reviews (5:15)
Our special announcement - persistence pays off! Thanks to our team. (8:36)
Modeling values for your children (20:39)
Raising kids who love natural living (27:43)
Strategies to raise natural living kids – and gluten-free apple pancakes! (33:33)
Let kids participate in activities but leave out junk food (45:50)
Answering their questions about healthy living (52:20)
Work hard, play hard and honor God as a family (55:16)
Natural living tip and episode wrap (59:52)

Previous Episode

Raising Grateful Hardworking Godly Kids

If you want to raise kids that are grateful, hardworking, and Godly, you’ll need to master the art of disciplining them – and that’s the topic of this podcast.

Mama Z and Dr. Z discuss the benefits of discipline and share tips on what age to start, what kind of discipline is age-appropriate, and how to enforce it.

We’ll talk about spanking, including do’s and don’t’s, and what would be considered abuse. We’ll briefly touch on potty training as it relates to discipline and then we’ll share more tips for incorporating structure into your parenting. And we’ll talk about what to do after the discipline has been meted out.

We’ll show you how to combat laziness your children with chores and discuss how that teaches kids to be grateful. Finally, we’ll talk about how to share your faith with your kids. And all of it has real-life examples from our years of raising our 4 children!

Join us to learn tips that can aid you in the most important job you have: being a parent!

Episode Highlights:

Today’s topic intro, what’s in our diffuser & your reviews! (2:15)
Special announcements and events (6:45)
Listeners reviews & being real with your life and faith (10:02)
Disciplining children: time outs, spanking, and more (16:50)
Discipline strategies for different ages (24:14)
What to do after you’ve disciplined your child (28:30)
Potty training (33:22)
Disciplining your children for their good (35:20)
Incorporating structure into your parenting (38:52)
Combating laziness, and cultivating gratitude & faith in your kids (44:14)
Raising children with a legacy of faith (51:51)
Natural living tip and episode wrap (61:40)

Next Episode

Detoxing Your Home and Life (Part 1): Kitchen and Pantry

Today’s show is all about detoxing your home and your life...starting with your heart. #DetoxHomeAndHeart

Many Christians embrace Western medicine but question if natural remedies are in-line with Biblical living. What’s the truth? We discuss how we live a natural life God’s way. We talk about educating people on this topic to clear up the confusion. We also discuss how Mama Z’s participation in beauty pageants helps her achieve a well-balanced life.

After sharing some exciting announcements, we’ll get into detox in depth. Sin is a toxin and that one of the most important ways to detox your life is to get right with the Lord. He can direct your steps to a clean and healthy mind, body and soul! We will share what you can do RIGHT NOW to change this. 🙂

So now, where do you begin? We’ll take the confusion out with some practical, easy steps to detox your kitchen and pantry. We’ll also discuss the question of whether or not plastic is safe to use and what we do in our home.

And you don’t want to miss today’s natural living tip – an easy recipe for safehand sanitizer! Join us today to get started detoxing your home.

Episode Highlights:

What’s in our diffuser & praying for our leaders & pastors (2:09)
The truth about natural remedies, pharmaceuticals, and Christianity (6:43)
Creating a positive environment in natural living (11:21)
We’re appearing at the Michigan Lavender Festival (15:28)
Announcements: All-access membership to everything we do is in development now – and our own show! (17:08)
An invitation to Christ and a truly detoxed life (23:34)
Getting rooted and fueled with Holy Spirit power gives you what you need (29:00)
Start detoxing your home – How to detox your kitchen and pantry (34:42)
Our nontoxic home makeover, the question of plastic and using totes (41:20)
The Essential Oils Diet book: your home detox survival guide (49:01)
Natural living tip and episode wrap (55:29)