Articles tagged with: healthy eater
We are happily sharing this guest post with you today, enjoy!
Written by Kia Robertson, mom and creator of the Today I Ate a Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents encourage their kids to eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day.
Kids love rainbows! What’s not to like, they’re so bright and colourful! Did you know that you can
When a child eats to “feed” a feeling (sadness, happiness, worry, frustration, boredom, etc.) instead of to relieve hunger, they are in the midst of “emotional eating.” It is natural for eating and emotions to become connected to a certain degree, but if emotions prompt a child to make poor food choices, or eat too much or too little, long-lasting problems can ensue.
Teach kids how to talk about feeling…
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…or how NOT to create a monster.
At a friend’s house the other day, my 5 year old pointed over to the family’s breakfast table, her eyebrows raised high up into her forehead. “Mama, look!” she gasped, pointing at a half-eaten bowl of kids’ cereals. It was the kind Michael Pollan ruled against. You know, the cereal that changes the color of the milk. Hoping no one had heard…
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Most people outgrow picky eating behavior. But some don’t. If you are one of those adults who still harbor aversions to many foods and feel most comfortable with eating only a limited variety of foods, you might be interested in strategies for not passing on your own issues to your children. To be clear, we are not talking about eating disorders here, but merely about parents’ food-related quirks that might…
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Most parents know kids should be eating more vegetables and less goldfish, more fruit and less juice boxes, more protein and less spaghetti-o’s. But how do you get them to eat what you serve? With goldfish and juice boxes it’s easy. Put them out for snack time and they get gobbled up. Why don’t celery sticks and apple slices fly off the plate and in the stomach like that? It’s…
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Or: The Deconstruction of a Habit – and Rebuilding a New One
This is in in continuation of last week’s article “Habits: Why We Need Ice Cream When We See the Truck“
I know it doesn’t seem like you reap anything but frustration from the fact that your child refuses vegetables, or won’t try anything new, or has a meltdown every night at the table. Whatever the problem, it’s…
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You want your child to eat better, but it’s tough. No matter what you do, things seem to stay the same. Sometimes, things even get worse.
Changing someone’s eating habits is no easy task. (If it were, we’d all be stellar eaters.) And it takes more than information to move things along. Everyone knows the information about ice cream — it is sugar-laden and…
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Despite vowing to never let the words pass their lips, how many parents can truthfully claim that, finding themselves at wits end, they have not uttered the phrase: “Do as I say, not as I do”? After all, we want our kids to do well, to develop the kinds of habits that will make them successful, happy adults. This is a natural aspect of being a good parent. Even though…
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This is part I of ZisBoomBah’s original series “Understanding Your Child’s Body Image”
I am worried about my daughter’s body image. She is four years old. But as a child with Type 1 Diabetes, she’s already aware that she is different; that her perfectly cute body is somehow not perfect. So when, exhausted from an episode of hyperglycemia, she recently announced, “Mama, I hate my body!” I knew I still…
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I was walking through the grocery store the other day and I realized that some veggies and fruit have really cool names. Dinosaur kale seemed like a vegetable kids would surely want to gobble up, right? And who wouldn’t be curious what UFO peaches must taste like. I wondered if catchy veggie names can win kids over or if a veggie is a veggie is a veggie to a picky…
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