Health Essentials

The Book: "Health Essentials (Health Is Wealth)": Very Important for Everyone in Every Family

(You can obtain your e-copy of the book from the Nuubuu link http://nbuu.co/ds and the printed book from Amazon)

The famous saying “Health is Wealth” is not a cliché. Having good health is more valuable than having material wealth since you can’t enjoy the wealth without health. The fact is health itself is an important kind of wealth. Even if you do not possess much money or assets you can still be far happier being in great shape physically, emotionally and mentally if you possess the most important asset called “health”.

That’s the reason for bringing forth this book to benefit everyone and to remind about the things you can do to keep healthy throughout your life, not feel miserable and stay capable of creating and enjoying this wealth as well as other types of wealth.

The suggestions the authors have made in this book for keeping healthy are very simple, quite practical, most economical and easily understandable. The entire book has been written in a layman’s language keeping out all the difficult to understand jargons.

This book is based on collective native wisdom derived from close observations of the persons who lived happily and healthily till age 90 to 100 plus years. It should not be treated as a medical or professional prescription from a doctor or a nutrition expert or a physical trainer or any other professional health practitioner.

Authors (Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar) are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors.

Qualities of a Good Parent

Are You Really a Good Parent?

Answer the following questions truthfully to check how good a parent you are (those of you who have one child should read "child" in place of "children" in the following questions):

1. Do you spend quality time with your children everyday?
2. Do you spend good amount of time (say at least 2 hours or more of your time) everyday with your children?
3. Do you converse with your children adequately (conversing is a two way communication on the topics of interest to your children and you and it is different from scolding, giving instructions, sermonizing or one way communication etc)?
4. Do you take at least two meals a day together as a family?
5. When your children make mistakes or fail in any activity or are apprehensive of facing any challenges do you support them as against getting angry?
6. Do you fully trust your children?
7. Hope you believe spying on your children a despicable act if you do?
8. Do you take care to be sure that you are making your children trustworthy?
9. Hope you are not an adversary to your children (and you and your children are always on the same side of the fence)?
10. Have you created an environment at home where your children can have open communication on any subject/event with you without any fear?
11. Have you made sure that your children do not have to tell lies or make excuses to you for any reason?
12. Are you ensuring from time to time that your children are not falling into bad habits and they are following good habits?
13. Are you ensuring from time to time that your children are not getting into bad company?
14. Do you help them in their homework when needed?
15. Do you provide necessary guidance to them in their studies, sports, arts and other activities?
16. Have you made sure that they like a wide range of food and are not too picky? Hope you yourself eat all kinds of good and nutritious stuff as an example to them?
17. When you tell your children to limit TV watching time to 30 to 45 minutes a day, do you follow the same rule?
18. Do you sit together with your children to watch the programs of their choice and which are appropriate for them?
19. Do you console them in their difficult times?
20. Do you tell them what is good and what is bad for them (and you follow those values yourself to set an example)?
21. Do you make sure that they are regular in studies, sports and other activities like arts, music etc?
22. Are you around/with them when they need you the most, say during their exams/tests, illness etc? Do you take leave from your professional activities during such times?
23. Do you go out on excursions, picnics, sightseeing, travel, camping etc together as a family once in a while?
24. Do you tell stories to your children when they are young?
25. Are you making your children confident of themselves?
26. Are you making sure that your children are developing assertiveness without becoming aggressive, mean and rude?
27. Do you make sure that your children maintain the regularity and punctuality in the activities like waking-up, sleep, breakfast, lunch, evening snacks, dinner, studies, sports, TV watching etc? Do you yourself set an example of regularity and punctuality?
28. Hope that under the name of disciplining your children you are not being cruel to them but treat them with firmness and affection?
29. Hope you make sure that they understand that wastage of anything is bad and they act accordingly?
30. Hope you give them ample amount of unconditional love all the time?

If your answers to all of the above questions is unhesitating "yes", then you make an ideal parent and you can be sure that your children will do you proud when they grow into adulthood.

Time Management and Daily To-Do List: Now Children Too

Children Do Better Time Management

It is not so easy to mould the adults into time management and daily to-do list mode. But soon they get around doing it because of the benefits they see from being a bit organized.

On the other hand, on this subject, our experience with children even of 5 to 8 years of age has been quite heartening when compared to what happens with adults. We found that children look forward to making their daily activities lists and assigning the time they would like to spend on each activity.

Children find it quite interesting to make their daily activities lists with a dash of time management poured into them, particularly in their summer vacations and their other holiday seasons.

We tried it with a few children of 5 to 8 year age group and results were astonishing.

For example one child made the following daily list on her own initiative and it turned out better than what we have observed adults doing. Here is this wonderful activity chart of the little one:

My Activity Chart (Date: mm/dd/yy)

1. Get up at 7 AM
2. Morning activities (brushing teeth and the other activity- you know what I mean): 20 minutes (sometimes I read a book inside :) )
3. Breakfast: 20 minutes
4. TV watching (only the programs I am allowed): 45 minutes (time limit fixed by my parents, wish I could see more TV)
5. Computer: Math 30 minutes and other games 30 minutes
6. Jump rope: half hour
7. Write in summer journal: 30 minutes
8. Lunch time: 1 hour
9. Read a book (she wrote name of the book here): 25 minutes
10. Sketching: 30 minutes
11. Homework Math: at 4 PM: 4 to 5 pages
12. Piano: 1 hour
13. Milk and snacks time: 20 minutes
14. Dress into martial arts clothes and go to the martial arts center: 1 hour
15. Dinner: 1 hour
16. Take bath: 15 minutes
17. Floss and brush teeth: 10 minutes
18. Story listening (from mom and dad): 15 minutes
19. Go to sleep
20. Good night activity chart 

(You may like the book "Essentials of Time Management"; eBook: http://nbuu.co/cA)