Sell your Kids on Healthy Eating
Wouldn’t it be great to hear your youngster utter those words? With a bit of effort – or make that a lot of effort- you could be one of the lucky one. The great thing is – it is worth it!
Is it really important for kids to eat their vegetables? Or fruits? Or drink their mil? Don’t they all outgrow most of their bad eating habits anyway? While this is true in many cases, it could just be too late!
We need to make an investment in our kids’ future health while they are young. Take good bones, for example. The nutritional support receives in the preteen and teenage years determine its susceptibility or resilience to fractures in later years. This calls for careful monitoring of both calcium-rich foods as well as exercise to make those bones grow strong and stay strong.
Link an Unpalatable present to a Palatable Future
You probably know by now that exhortations such as “Eat your veggies so that you will be big and strong like Daddy” do not work. Contemporary kids are smart enough to look at a couch potato Daffy and question such a statement ( if your husband is an athlete, that is of course a different story.)
