Text Messaging keeps your children healthy
As parents, we always want our children grow healthy but not fat, thin but strong. During the early years, kids are very hard to feed, specially if there are distractions around like TV and toys. Sometimes, instead of letting the kids starve because they do not want to eat the healthy food you give them, you ended up feeding less healthier food or sometimes, not healthy at all. The result is more likely that your kids grow up thin and weak or fat and unhealthy. Or the worst, obese. Their diet is one of our primary concerns.
In a study at University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine, a group of kids were asked to monitor their snack intake, TV time and activity time, and report back to the monitoring team through text messaging. The monitoring team then replies back words of encouragement like “Wow, you met your step and screen time goals – congratulations!” Another groups were asked to report via pen and paper. The result favors the first group.
On the scenario, text messaging only serves as the medium, but the main ingredient I see are the words of encouragement. There are many way to encourage your kids, however, text messaging might be the best – in this case.
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