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Here are some eating tips to help parents encourage children to eat right and maintain a healthy weight.
10 key eating tips and parenting rules to live by when dealing with food for kids
- Parents control the supply lines. You decide which foods to buy and when to serve them.
- From the foods you offer, kids get to choose what they will eat or whether to eat at all. Kids need to have some say in the matter. This may seem like a little too much freedom. But if you follow step 1, your kids will be choosing only from the foods you decided to buy and serve.
- Quit the "clean-plate club." Let kids stop eating when they feel they've had enough.
- Start them young. Food preferences are developed early in life, so offer a variety of foods.
- Rewrite the kids' menu. Who says kids only want to eat hot dogs, pizza, burgers, and macaroni and cheese?
- Drink calories count. Soda and other sweetened drinks add extra calories and get in the way of good nutrition. Water and milk are the best drinks for kids. Juice is fine when it's 100%, but kids don't need much of it - 4 to 6 ounces a day is enough for preschoolers.
- Put sweets in their place. Occasional sweets are fine, but don't turn dessert into the main reason for eating dinner.
- Food is not love. Find better ways to say "I love you." When foods are used to reward kids and show affection, kids may start using food to cope with stress or other emotions.
- Kids do as you do. Be a role model and eat healthy yourself.
- Limit TV and computer time. When you do, you'll avoid mindless snacking and encourage activity.
These eating tips will not only help parents in their own eating habits, but certainly encourage kids to eat healthy. To read the full article by Kidshealth.org, click here.
Keep your snacks and meals healthy!
- The Moms Buzz
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source: www.kidshealth.org
These are wonderful tips - it's so important for children to eat well and to learn good eating habits that will serve them well for the rest of their lives!
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Posted by: Bell & Ross | June 09, 2010 at 07:37 AM