Your kid is having a tantrum, bouncing off the walls, pounding the floor in one of the nicest restaurants in town. He wants his dessert first and all of the people in the restaurant around you want him to have it! All eyes are on You and this irascible child. The maître d’ comes over, grabs your child, says “You can have him back after dinner” and carries your child away!

Hello, I’m Rowena Starling welcoming you to The Save Your Breath Show where we help parents eliminate the stress and aggravation of parenting whether your child is 5 or 50. Today’s show is about nutrition and the various chemicals we absorb into our bodies that cause us to misbehave and/or feel ill. Your child in the introduction is one who is sensitive to sugar yet is addicted to it.

“Each year, around one billion pounds of pesticides are used across farms, forests, and lawns in the US.1 Around 17,000 pesticide products are in use right now… Research reveals that only 0.1% of pesticides applied reach the target ‒ the other 99.9% impacts the environment. Pesticide residues are widely found in animal feeds too ‒ 80% of corn and 22% of wheat produced in the US each year find their way into animal feed.” ~ Environmental Protection Agency

Why are we looking at nutrition and the things we eat today? Our brains are of primary importance and I believe we take them for granted. Nutrition, what we eat, sets us up for failure and success. I want offspring, as well as parents, to respect the weight of the importance of what we put in our mouths and the effect it has on our health and happiness.

Parents, in particular, need heed because our offspring are watching what we ‘do’ more than what we ‘say’. We parents need to explore more the various ways we can rescue ourselves from bad eating habits. The ‘exploring’ can be fun!

Nearly every chronic and devastating disease known to mankind has it’s root in what we’ve eaten or ingested in some way. What are you putting on your skin? That’s another way of ‘ingesting’!

What then is the effect on your perception of what’s going on with your offspring? What kind of communications are you putting forth? What effect is it having on your integrity? Are you ‘aware’?

“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”

~ Ann Wigmore, American Holistic Health Practitioner and Doctor of Divinity.

We have evolved from the rickets and scurvy of yesteryear and we’re still evolving. We’re living longer than ever before. However, our minimum unmet daily recommended vitamin intake is huge and our immune systems are slowly turning against us. Because we’re not getting the exposure to germs that we once did, we have more allergies and asthma than ever before. Something virtually unheard of in our farming days.

What are you allergic to? To what is your offspring allergic? Do you know? Perhaps THAT is why they’re having problems concentrating or whatever the problem is. It’s pretty easy to recognize a problem if you or your child has hives all over the body. It’s quite another thing if we’re not considering the effect of food, medications or allergens on how we feel and react to life.

What’s your nutritional style? Mine is green and yellow vegetables with a helping the size of my palm of protein thrown in for strength plus a random dose of fiber for good measure? That’s my favorite.

Organic food vs. processed food: the big issue of the day. We want to eat organic but cost is an issue. Processed food is cheaper and often tastier but it makes us sick and kills us faster. Hmmm, which one is really the most expensive then?

Food is a profound love-connection that we all share on many different levels: a connection to the food itself, to each other, to our self-worth, to societal class, to love. Food is our love-connection to mother earth, our physical aspect. Food needs to be revered as part of the foundation of our physical love itself.

Have you ever had someone say this meal was made with love? The infusion of this bit of ether, Love, can literally make you well. The chicken soup loving made my Mom makes you well. It’s infused with the ether of Love. Mom’s Apple Pie, cakes and what not. Oh! You know it’s true. There is no negative effect of the sugar in Mom’s baked love offerings!

During the family meals around the table, we gather and distribute the ether of Love, one to the other… even if there’s discord. Love is there. Gathered around the table, looking at itself.

My food story, growing up poor. My mother often had no food to feed my brother and I. Being 4 yrs. older than he, I got more of these days than he did. The feelings are indescribable, as a child, when you to hear “We don’t have food today”or “There’s nothing to eat tonight.”

Can you imagine how my mother felt? I often wonder if I’ve made up for that lack of nutrients as a child. To this day, I have an obsession with food to the point that I barely finish one meal before I’m thinking about the next. I’m much better now than 10 years ago but still, is chalking it up to ‘proper meal planning’ really fooling myself? My solace is knowing that the meditation I engage in heals all deficits.

So, how do we handle this nutrition issue? 1) Whatever you do, include full doses of Omega-3! Buy the best food you can afford. Preferably the kind that grew directly from the ground or walked on it. Affordability is an issue for many.

Many parents feel that buying organic whole food is too expensive but it’s really deeper than that. If they would just realize that cheap food is more expensive in the long run, then they would make a point of buying the best and freshest food they can. Max out vitamin & mineral supplements! Our bodies are our personal temples!

Pesticides are the main reason organic is so big. Soils that have been cultivated and saturated and turned over and over year after year with pesticides and then used to grow crop after crop of sprayed produce is the issue. So yes, if you can afford organic, please do. Eat organic fertilizers vs. inorganic fertilizers.

Our vitamin and mineral intake is poor. Get the highest quality supplements you can find and pound them in. The people at Consumer Labs at https://www.consumerlab.com/RDAs/show a minimum and maximum supplement requirement. Do the maximum. With QUALITY supplements, you’ll find you and your family will feel better, behave better, stay healthier longer and become stronger physically and mentally.

2) Slowly or gradually rid yourself and family of bad eating habits. Cold turkey is no fun and causes quite a bit of unnecessary rebellion. Steady, consistent replacement of the bad with the good is the way to go.

3) You may need to have allergen tests done. Doctors, holistic practitioners and nutritionist have the best referrals for this. You don’t want to keep blaming yourself or your kid for some behavior that’s needing a dietary shift!

4) Look at your emotional attachment to eating, unhealthy or otherwise. There are various means of getting rid of unwanted emotions, thus getting rid of the problem. Would you like to eliminate unwanted emotions, fears and anxieties in minutes rather than taking months and years?!! I can help.

If you have fears and/or anxieties that stand in the way of you making the money you know you’re capable of or stand in the way of dealing with parenthood in a thoroughly loving and effective way, if you find you are often anxious over disciplinary issues or what the future holds, contact me through the complimentary parenting assessment at saveyourbreath101.com/parenting-assessment. It’s a $250 value for free for a limited time only.

What if we decide to ‘just do it later’? Well, problems persist and continue until we get around to it. Is that what you want? Behavior problems, health problems, the brain doesn’t get what it needs, the body doesn’t get what it needs. Then you have you have to ask yourself how much you really Love…

Mysterious illnesses are not mysterious. Many times they are simply an answer to neglect. Do you want us all to start looking like the people in some impoverished 3rd world country?

You were born to be a HERO to your child. There’s a saying, “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” I believe this is true. Not all people are called to be parents AND many parents don’t pick up the mantle of being responsible parents, HEROES for their children, and our world suffers because of it.

THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!!! I call now for parents who treasure all that is holy and sacred to take up arms against parenting by default, living in fear and anxiety and just generally feeling crappy. Of the ones called, a HEROIC task is laid before them… Bring up the next generation of HEROES.

BE the light that shines for your offspring on the path to Infinite Joy. Give it to yourself first. Have your True Will. This doesn’t stop just because your child is now an adult.

Since you knew and trusted the maître d’ in the beginning intro of this episode, you allowed him and his staff to ‘babysit’ your son while you and the rest of the restaurant patrons enjoyed a quiet dinner. You were very grateful for this help as you have very few dinner nights out because of your son’s behavior. You have a clue now as to what to look for and you’re relieved that there’s hope. You can see it all getting easier now….