Everyday We’re Guzzlin’… to Stay Hydrated!

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Though it is already Octo­ber, tem­per­a­tures here in Las Vegas are still in the 80’s and 90’s!!! Even though fall has arrived and the fore­cast final­ly dipped under 100’s, it will still con­tin­ue to be extreme­ly warm here in the desert. I’m doing every­thing I can to make sure my fam­i­ly stay hydrat­ed! As sum­mer was just begin­ning, I was read­ing sug­ges­tions from licensed dietit­ian and nutri­tion­ist Robin Plotkin and one tip real­ly stood out to me:

Lead by exam­ple. Each time Mom or Dad goes for a drink of water, ask your chil­dren if they’d like a drink of water, too. Soon, it will be the kids ask­ing the par­ents if they’d like to join them for a water break.

Seems so obvi­ous, right? But the fact was, that my hus­band and I were still con­sum­ing ridicu­lous amounts of soda. Con­se­quent­ly we were lead­ing by the wrong exam­ple! Though my daugh­ter, Anabelle, was not allowed to drink any caf­feinat­ed bev­er­ages, she still opt­ed for sug­ary drinks when we did. So we, as a fam­i­ly, made a com­mit­ment to switch to drink­ing water. It has made such a huge dif­fer­ence in our every­day lives. I can hon­est­ly say that I now find myself crav­ing ice-cold water!

Anabelle has already been back in school for almost two months, which means we’ve returned to our dai­ly rou­tine of school and swim team prac­tice. My morn­ings con­sist of pack­ing her lunch and mak­ing sure she has plen­ty of water for her school day. Espe­cial­ly, with recess and P.E. tak­ing place out­doors in this heat, I want to make sure she’s prop­er­ly hydrat­ed through­out the school day!

At the start of the year, I decid­ed to send my daugh­ter off to school with two bot­tles of water, so she can have one at her desk through­out the day, and one in her lunch box. In prepa­ra­tion, we head­ed to Wal­mart to pick up back to school sup­plies and neces­si­ties. Anabelle want­ed cute lit­tle bot­tles that would match her back­pack and lunch box, so we pur­chased refill­able plas­tic con­tain­ers, along with Nestlé® Pure Life® Water. I picked up the 1 gal­lon jugs for her lunch­es, as well as the 28 packs of the 16.9 fl.oz. bot­tles for on-the-go excur­sions and swim practice.

As soon as the school day ends and we’re head­ed to swim team prac­tice, it’s usu­al­ly the hottest part of the day! Ordi­nar­i­ly, Anabelle prac­tices at an indoor pool, which is shield­ed from the sun, but is kept very warm for the swim­mers. Hon­est­ly, it’s like sit­ting in a sauna for a cou­ple of hours every day! My hus­band and my dad come with us to every prac­tice and we are always sweat­ing our behinds off, espe­cial­ly in the Win­ter when the heat is turned up. Last month, our nor­mal pool was under­go­ing main­te­nance, so we were at an out­door pool… in the sun… in 100º heat! Yikes! So, before school I picked up more Nestlé® Pure Life® Water, along with healthy snacks to allow her to refu­el, mak­ing sure she stays hydrat­ed and ener­gized for practice.

In my effort to ensure my fam­i­ly stay healthy and hydrat­ed, I became acquaint­ed with Nestlé® Pure Life®. Nestlé® Pure Life® is a proud sup­port­er of the Part­ner­ship for a Health­i­er Amer­i­ca’s Drink Up ini­tia­tive, who is com­mit­ted to help­ing fam­i­lies make health­i­er choic­es, start­ing with hydra­tion. In the endeav­or to instill healthy habits in ear­ly child­hood to devel­op life­long ben­e­fits, The Rip­ple Effect was estab­lished to encour­age moms and their kids to opt for drink­ing water. In addi­tion to enlist­ing mom ambas­sadors to share their tips for mak­ing health­i­er choic­es, Nestlé® Pure Life® is also pro­vid­ing water to chil­dren through their After-School All-Stars orga­ni­za­tion. Nestlé® Pure Life® has com­mit­ted to pro­vide near­ly one mil­lion 8 ounce serv­ings of water to kids this school year through After-School All-Stars. Infor­ma­tion source — At over 20 par­tic­i­pat­ing schools in select mar­kets across the country.

In an online sur­vey con­duct­ed by Nestlé® Pure Life® in June 2015*, they found out that bare­ly half of moms {52%} reg­u­lar­ly remind their child/children to drink water. Besides that, moms con­sid­ered drink­ing water to be one of the biggest healthy habit strug­gles with their kids {38%}, beat­ing out the strug­gle to get­ting them to eat­ing fruit {29%}, exer­cis­ing {23%} and eat­ing break­fast {19%}. If I had been asked these ques­tions pri­or to the Sum­mer, there’s no doubt I would fall under­neath these sta­tis­tics, but am so hap­py and proud to report it is no longer the case in our family!

Find out more about help­ing your fam­i­ly to Drink Up and be part of The Rip­ple Effect, join­ing the move­ment to keep kids hydrat­ed, by vis­it­ing pureliferippleeffect.com! Get addi­tion­al tips and share your own ideas for healthy hydra­tion by vis­it­ing the Nestlé® Pure Life® Face­book while uti­liz­ing #pure­lif­erip­ple­ef­fect. What are your favorite tips to get your kids and fam­i­ly to stay healthy and hydrated?.

* Online sur­vey was con­duct­ed in June 2015 of 1,077 moms of kids ages 6–12 over­all, includ­ing 254 His­pan­ic moms of kids ages 6–12. 1,077 kids ages 6–12 from the same house­hold were also sur­veyed, includ­ing 254 His­pan­ic kids ages 6–12. © 2015 Nestlé® Waters North Amer­i­ca Inc.

 

Merci Beaucoup!

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