Fruit

I like to think that I'm doing a pretty good job with my kids healthy eating ( for the most part anyway) ... they aren't fussy eaters and eat most of what is put in front of them. It is always a challenge to keep them interested and partaking in the "good" things though. I'm trying to encourage them to learn about "sometimes" food and "all the time" food - and why they are different (Finn can distinguish between the two but wants the former more often!!!)

My kids are both big fruit eaters... in fact Finn would eat only fruit all day if I allowed it - he just loves it - and is not particularly fussy about what type of fruit it is. He does have his favourites though and at the moment it's watermelon and oranges. I'm thankful that it's not bananas right now - at $12/kilo - he'd send us broke!

Thinking about fruit and it's presence in the kids lives, led me to think about a different form of fruit that I'd like to be of influence to them too. 

I want to try to teach them the importance of these fruit and how best to do that? I need to lead by example - not always an easy thing for me to do. A while ago I found a quote that had a big impact on me - so I typed it up and stuck in on my fridge as a great reminder for me:

"What we want our children to become, we must endeavour to be before them"

 Anyway... back to the fruit.I try to teach these and have them as active guidelines within our family life but I think I need to put them somewhere, physically to remind me... just like that quote.

Love

Joy

Peace

Patience

Kindness

Goodness

Faithfulness

Gentleness

Self Control

These need to be in the "all the time"  category - not just the "sometimes"!

Wishing you all a fruit-full day,

Danni xx