A Healthy Child Makes A Happy Home

Health and happiness are synonymous – not absolutely but quite!!

My sister’s son was perpetually sick because of bad eating habits. He would gorge on burgers, pastas, pizzas fries and chips. Never eat vegetables and fruit – that seemed to be the motto. Colas were a must with every meal – almost like a bribe to make them eat. 

The result was constipation, low immunity, proneness to cold, cough and the inevitable viral attack with the slightest change of weather. The parents – both working - didn’t have time to sit, bond, entertain or educate their son, and inspite of my pleading with my sister, she would do nothing to change the habits. Just to assuage her guilt at not being around with her son, she would dole out the largest portions of pizzas to him – making the fast food companies richer, and her own child poorer in health.

The frequent falling ill led to her having to take leave from her office, and regular visits to the doctors. Inspite of the family being well off, it was not a Happy Home – mainly because it didn’t have a Healthy Child.

And then the transformation.

Our aunt came down heavily on my sister, and insisted that even though she could not change the habits of the kid, she should insist on giving him his daily dose of Chyawanprash. From her personal experience our aunt knew how Chyawanprash from Dabur increases immunity and makes children less prone to falling sick.

So now the sister of mine started giving one spoon of Chyawanprash to her son with his morning glass of milk. And slowly over a period of time, we could see him falling ill less frequently. Yes he seemed to be getting stronger. No cough, cold sore throat, viral attacks. And the mood in the house underwent a parallel change. A Healthy child is a happier child, less whining, less complaining, less crying. And where you have a happy child what else does a mother need? That indeed is a happy home.

Now the child also saw the correlation between diet and health and slowly he got weaned away from the junk food he was addicted to. From a daily dose, now he is happy with a once a week or once in ten days kind of indulgence at a fast food joint or home delivery. Certainly he is more active, more energetic and more lively.

Thanks to my aunt. Truly if you educate a woman (in this case my sister) you educate the entire family. The future generation too has imbibed the values of healthy nutrition – hopefully!!

Thanks to the daily spoon of Chyawanprash. In such a healthy atmosphere of love and friendship, physical, mental and emotional diseases rarely enter the house. So yes, we should give a little thought and care to the immunity of our young ones – the returns are incalculable. 

How can you measure Health after all? Or Happiness in a family?