Healthy eating habits in early childhood development and learning are important. From birth, food is essential for survival. A nutritious diet makes your child healthier and more capable of learning.
No doubt children are picky eaters. It is quite common for children to throw broccoli away in disgust while salivating over chips and other junk food. It is important that children are taught to eat healthy and balanced diets to ensure healthy growth and development.
Good eating habits from childhood will remain with the child to adulthood, which will ensure their health to a certain degree. The good eating habits of a balanced diet ensures that kids perform well in learning and experience growth in development.
As parents, getting your children to eat up what they do not want to eat is hectic and often the least of their worries given bills to pay and other roles. However, it should be a top priority for parents, since current eating habits will impact their future lives as well.
Imani Montessori School teachers constantly engage the children in healthy eating habits. At a time like this when children are learning from home, parents should also take up the responsibility of inculcating healthy eating habits in their children even as they work with the teachers to ensure good eating habits are practiced. After all we are what we eat.
Eat Healthy. Stay Healthy.
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