December 5, 2010 The Power of First Impressions
The Power of First Impressions and Diabetes?
My wife recently shared a very personal story with me regarding an incident that took place when she was about seven years old. It was in regards to a mathmatical decision she was aksed to make based on a simple question she already had the mathmatical answer to. However, the answer she provided in response to the question was based entirely upon a story book that she had read earlier that year.
First Impressions and Diabetes?
Firstly, what does first impressions have to do with diabetes? First impressions are generated at an early age. When kids are young they are most influenced at this stage in their development.
Kids are greatly influences by graphics. Illustrations and stories shape opinions from the cloths kids wear to the foods they eat.
This my friends represents the true and awsome mind shaping power of story telling. Good story telling is the opportunity to shape young minds to help influence their self-esteem, the cloths they wear, the thoughts they think and yes, food they eat.
Research:
Typically I would provide a list of statistics at this point in my articles, however in this case let me just say that… even one wrong first impression on your child is one to many.
If you think of commercials as a form of story telling you will quickly understand the power that advertising has in shaping you childrens decisions. Your kids listen, watch and then become what they have been programmed through stories to become or act out. If they are exposed to english, they will express themselves in english. Whatever the standard apparel, food, religion, they will express themselve within these frameworks even in rebellion, they will only be able to express this rebellion within the confined components they have been endowed with via visual and audio input they recieved since childhood.
How To Change Your Child At Any Age
How to change you kids eating habits so that they don’t get diabetes? I think you know the answer to that. You must take on the true role of a parent. You must protect you childs mind every second of the day, you must prevent them from the overdose of short stories called TV commercials. You must create stories of your own to read to your children to help shape thier character. You should no longer let some mindless self-destructive commercial advertisements from corporations who do not have your childs best interest at hand influenced and programmed your children with short-story advertising. You must also take the god given role of parent and re-parent your childs thinking in effort to counter act the mass media from brain washing your child. If you as a parent can’t protect and nuture your own child then I truly don’t know how to classify such a specie. I can only tell you, in all mans self-proclaimed medical glory, their health ain’t better off than those geese.
Over the past several decades I have had the pleasure of watching several groups of geese raise their young. I can tell you that the geese will not let the little goslings out of their sight. The parent geese will lead the goslings on a perpetual journey showing and demostrating what to eat and not eat, what animals to trust and not to trust. May I ask, are you teaching your children the thousands of things of what to eat and what not to turst? It is my conclusion that geese will teach their young gosling to avoid most foods sold in the grocery stores and bought from fast-food outlets if they were human that is.
You see, the geese never stopped parenting. They do not ask others to parent their young for them. They do not relinquish the god gifted opportunity to help form the first impressions of their young. By they way, the geese achieve all this without ever uttering a word of proper english.
Round and Round Diabetes We Go
What does first impressions have to do with diabetes? Let me provide a small example… Total stranger buys TV stations. Stranger shows kid a TV food commercial-story, kids wants food, kid’s parent blindly trust this stranger, parents buy kid the food, kid and parent both eat poison food. Kid and parents (and any lab rat that ate the same food) get diabetes. Another total stranger show your kids TV commercial-story of medicine that can mask the food poison. Parent trust total stranger again. Parent buys kids the medicine. Kids and parent inject themselves with the medicine. The medicine makes Parents and kid (along with any lab rat that injects this same medicne) gain weight and become more hungrier than normal. Parent and kids now continue to eat more of the same food, kids and parents buy more medication. Multiply and repeat 117 millions times. This is you America. This is you and your kids.
Conclusion
I started out sharing a vague outline of a story involving my wife. The story involved two illustrations of a stairway, one stariway was beautiful, while the other stairway was less than desirable by all appearences. I might add that she got into quite a of trouble for holding firmly to the non-conventional answer she provided. But this provide an early lessons learned that she took from that early childhood incident. That incident makes her a hard person for any commercial TV to deceive. She will verify every claim and trusts nothing to total strangers from TV commercials or otherwise. She became an above average parent to her kids.
As adults we all have experienced the power of a good story. We all know, a good story will hold our attention, manipulate our emotions and can possibly influence our decision making. Each TV commercial is such an opportunity to manipulate your child and plant important first impressions for better or worse.
First impressions are everything. Don’t let your young kids watch even one commercial. Don’t let the older children watch commercials without warning them about the dark health related side affects that do not accompany those commercials particularly the food advertisements. If you can’t achieve this as a parent, then perhaps by geese standards, you are already and unfit and failed parent.
Recommended Reading
Kids Can Read this health related book free online At DayStarBooks.Com
This series of Run Tippy Run – Draw Me Healthy books, will attempt to introduce a green diet concept to young children. By illustrating a direct link to food and health, we induce kids to question their diet choices and food sources.
Read Run Tippy Run – Draw Me Healthy – Diabetes Health Series
You can purchase a hard copy of the book from…
Hard Copy from Amazon $12.15
eBook Version Amazon $2.99
Hard Copy at DaystarBooks $6.99
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