Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #16: Serve healthy foods Serve healthy foods for celebrations at home and in the classroom, instead of always serving candy and sweets. Check back tomorrow for more Hands-On Nutrition with Barbara Storper, MS, RD!
Hands-On Nutrition: Giving attention
Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #15: Try not to use food as a reward or punishment. Giving sweets as a reward for consolation often confuses a child’s understanding of food and love, and may encourage kids to seek out food when unhappy, bored, or lonely. Try to provide a listening ear, hugs, or […]
Hands-On Nutrition: Creative activity
Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #14: Have fun being active! Have kids make their own “(Always Wanted) To-Do List” with everything they’d like to do if they only had the time. Then, turn off the TV and go to it! Suggest activities to activate non-TV fun: sewing, cooking, sports, scrapbooking… turn spare time […]
Hands-on Nutrition: TV off!
Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #13: Turn off the TV! Today’s average child watches three to four hours of TV a day! Studies show that the more TV a child watches, the more overweight s/he becomes—thanks to a deadly combo of inactivity, constant exposure to junk food ads, mindless TV snacking, and a […]
FoodPlay Friday: Going Green
Welcome to another FoodPlay Friday! With St. Patrick’s Day nearly upon us and an early spring in the air, it’s no wonder I’ve got green on my mind. Though the landscape in New England still clings desperately to winter, there’s plenty of green in the blogopshere this week to feed my thoughts of spring. At […]