Get your children to eat healthy food
Our kids may get older, but the desire to spend time with them never really goes away. Use these tips to make your family mealtime an enriching experience.
-Make sure that your kids (and you) have a lot of good snacks to eat. -Follow your own advice by making better choices for yourself. -Dinnertime isn't the time to start a battle over food. If you don't leave it up for debate, your kids will eat healthy. -If you let your kids help cook and shop for groceries, they are more likely to eat healthy if they chose the food.
These are great ways to incorporate healthy eating into family life, but it's not easy to do it when everyone is so busy and cheap fast food is so widely available. Here are some methods by which you can bring the above strategies into your daily routine.
Sitting down for a meal as a family can be the start of a wonderful tradition. Children thrive on structure, and knowing that there is a family meal coming up gives them something to look forward to. Parents can use the opportunity to catch up with their kids' lives. Kids who eat meals as a family have been found to be:
-more likely to eat healthy foods like veggies, fruits, and grains- and less likely to snack on "junk food" -much less likely to use illegal drugs or alcohol
When kids eat with their parents, they are more likely to try new foods, and their parents are modeling healthy choices. Teens, however, are independent by nature and they probably will be less than enthusiastic about a family dinner.They still need their parents' advice and discipline, and using dinnertime as a chance to reinforce the rules is a good idea. Try these tips:
-Let your teen invite a friend to dinner. -Allow them to help choose and cook the meal. -Make mealtime a "fight free" time- save lectures and arguments for another more appropriate time.
If your kids have sports or band practice, you might have to have a late dinner, or maybe you could go out for pizza once a week. - 17273
-Make sure that your kids (and you) have a lot of good snacks to eat. -Follow your own advice by making better choices for yourself. -Dinnertime isn't the time to start a battle over food. If you don't leave it up for debate, your kids will eat healthy. -If you let your kids help cook and shop for groceries, they are more likely to eat healthy if they chose the food.
These are great ways to incorporate healthy eating into family life, but it's not easy to do it when everyone is so busy and cheap fast food is so widely available. Here are some methods by which you can bring the above strategies into your daily routine.
Sitting down for a meal as a family can be the start of a wonderful tradition. Children thrive on structure, and knowing that there is a family meal coming up gives them something to look forward to. Parents can use the opportunity to catch up with their kids' lives. Kids who eat meals as a family have been found to be:
-more likely to eat healthy foods like veggies, fruits, and grains- and less likely to snack on "junk food" -much less likely to use illegal drugs or alcohol
When kids eat with their parents, they are more likely to try new foods, and their parents are modeling healthy choices. Teens, however, are independent by nature and they probably will be less than enthusiastic about a family dinner.They still need their parents' advice and discipline, and using dinnertime as a chance to reinforce the rules is a good idea. Try these tips:
-Let your teen invite a friend to dinner. -Allow them to help choose and cook the meal. -Make mealtime a "fight free" time- save lectures and arguments for another more appropriate time.
If your kids have sports or band practice, you might have to have a late dinner, or maybe you could go out for pizza once a week. - 17273
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