Continuing the Conversation

We encourage you to ask your daughters what was discussed in GOTR each week. Here's what we're talking about this week, and ways that you can continue the conversation at home. (Please note: There are different subjects for Girls on the Run teams (3rd-5th grade) and Girls on Track teams (6th-8th grades).

Lesson 5: Fueling Our Healthy Pace

The girls are learning in today's lesson about the importance of healthy nutrition and healthy habits such as regular physical activity and sleep. During the workout, the importance of "pacing" is examined. This lesson offers an excellent opportunity for parents/caregivers to discuss the importance of "balance".  A balanced lifestyle represents a happy medium in all aspects of life-physical and mental- which do not fall to either side of the extreme.

Questions & Conversation Starters:

1. What are some of our favorite fruits and vegetables?

2. What do you think represents a balanced meal? Why is it important for us to eat balanced meals?

3. Is it hard to always to eat healthy foods? Why? ( There is room for nearly all foods in your diet, but the key is moderation!)

4. Why is it important  to be physically healthy?

5. What is one thing that you plan to do to improve upon your nutrition and/or healthy habits?

Lesson 6: Being Emotional is Healthy

Today's lesson is about emotional health. The girls explore different kinds of emotions and discuss how uncomfortable emotions, such as anger, sorrow,and frustration, make them feel. They are also learning the importance of being able to identify their emotions. Lastly, they are discussing methods to effectively manage their emotional responses.

Questions & Conversation Starters:

1.What are some examples of emotions? Are there any "bad" emotions? ( There are not-emotions are just comfortable of uncomfortable)

2.What happens if we feel like we can't express some of our emotions? 

3. Why is it important to let our friends and family feel all their emotions, even it makes us uncomfortable?

4. Have you ever had a feeling inside that, but you didn't know what emotion it was?

5. One thing you learned today was the importance of taking in a deep breath and 'being' with a feeling to figure exactly what it is. Then you can figure out exactly what it is your feeling. Let's do that now. Let's take a minute to be quiet, breath deeply and then share  what we are feeling.