102: Helping Your Kids Make Healthy Choices with Dr. Sheila Carroll

We understand the journey of learning to make healthier choices for ourselves, right? But what about our kids? How do we help our kids not only make healthier choices but want to make healthier choices for themselves? I’m asked this question a lot. How do we guide our families through nutrition choices? I have to admit that not being a parent means I don’t know how we should be teaching our kids. So I asked my colleague, Dr. Sheila Carroll - who is a board certified pediatrician, obesity medicine physician, life coach, and mom - to talk with me about exactly that: encouraging healthy paths for our children.  Dr. Sheila Carroll and I have similar childhood stories about how something that was said to us as children affected our body image and relationship with food early on. Sheila understands exactly why we have to be very careful about the message we send to our children. She believes that anything we want to change for our kids needs to start with us. That’s right, the parents are the ones who need to model the behaviors they want their kids to adopt! It doesn’t mean parents need to be perfect, but it does mean we do as we say. We need to make home a healthy influence on our children’s understanding of nutrition and their own value. Sheila has valuable advice to share and she draws from vast experience to explain how we can help children make healthy choices. So join my conversation with Dr. Sheila Carroll to learn how to guide kids onto a healthier path. About Dr. Sheila Carroll:Sheila Carroll, MD is board certified in general pediatrics and obesity medicine. She has been working in the clinical practice of medicine for 22 years.After discovering life coaching, she applied what she learned to her own life and experienced an upleveling transformation. She then became a certified Life and Weight Loss Coach through The Life Coach School to be able to help other people experience similar life transformations.She lives and works in Maine with her son Theo and their 14-year-old puppy Finn.Learn more about Dr. Sheila Carroll:WebsiteInstagramFacebookLinkedIn—Learn more about Dr Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Thrive Beyond Size websiteWebsite: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and Instagram