When we have our babies. We are almost fanatical in making sure that the food that we are giving to our baby is entirely healthy and loaded with nutrition. You might eat junk food every time but you will never think of feeding such food to your baby. For them dessert would be applesauce or blueberries and beverages are fruit juice and milk.
But as the time passes by and your baby reaches school age, she’s soon bare to the junk food culture. Soda creep and candy bars in to the diet. Before you know it, your first grader is eating chips and drinking soda on a regular basis. All of your early efforts come to naught when your children’s eating healthy foods exclusively , becomes a thing of the past. Here are some tips on how to avoid the junk food syndrome and keep your children eating healthy foods as the norm. Forming good eating habits will benefit your kids for a lifetime!
The argument ‘but everyone else gets to have…’ in one of the major hurdle you require to surmount. It becomes a peer pressure issue if all the other kids at school are allowed soda and candy by the carload. You can deal with this by having a chat with your kids and make them understand what some of the consequences of a poor diet are. With so many kids now considered overweight or obese, being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, formerly known as adult onset diabetes, you’ve got some pretty influential arguments.
Make your children understand how children eating healthy diets tend to maintain a normal weight and suffer less illness than those who load up on junk food and sugar, they might really start following that. Who likes a call to the dentist to fill a cavity? Not any kids I know! Your chat doesn’t need to be an convincing lecture. Spread out your lessons on children eating healthy foods over time. Have a casual attitude . For example, bring up the subject of diabetes in the context of something you read today. “I wanted to let you know something I ran across today that actually shocked me. Have you heard about the illness called diabetes?” Take it from there. Chances are good that your kid knows somebody at school who has this disease.
Availability is another main impediment to children eating healthy. Fortunately many schools have substituted soda machines and stocking snack machines with healthier choices, such as fresh fruit and juices. Almost all of our behavior patterns come down to habit, good or bad. If kids are given only good quality food choices at school, they’ll go for those. If they can choose between a candy bar or a bag of trail mix, which do you think they’ll select? If your child’s school still has vending machines with unhealthy food choices, be proactive in pushing for a change!
If you want your kids to eat healthy foods as a subject of habits then set the example in your own eating choices. You will be defeated the war if they see you scarfing down sodas and candy bars for snack food. On the other hand, if they see you eating fruit or having a glass of milk for a mid-afternoon, they’ll tend to follow your lead.
Just as bad habits are difficult to break, good habits tend to stick. You go, Mom!
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