{"id":1063,"date":"2012-01-21T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:41:30","slug":"nutrition-strategies-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/nutrition-strategies-for-children","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Strategies for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"child_cooking\" border=\"2\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/kid_rolling_pin.jpg\" width=\"136\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&#39;ve written a lot about obesity and why it is detrimental to your children.&nbsp; [Some of these posts are listed below in the area for related posts.]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Here, I&rsquo;m suggesting a few ways you can start better eating habits in your own family &#8211; starting with things you can control:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">your own kitchen<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">your own food<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">your own children<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><u>Keep healthy, more natural, food around the house.<\/u> If there is no candy, no soda, and no sugar-laden cereal &#8211; the kids will not be eating it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><u>Get daily exercise<\/u> &#8211; play with your kids &#8211; toss balls, chase each other, run around the house, apartment, yard or street, take walks together [especially easy if you have a dog.]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><u>Limit the amount of time in front of the TV<\/u> and have a rule of NO FOOD while watching TV. This is for the adults too &#8211; we tend to munch mindlessly when we watch TV.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><u>Drink more water.<\/u> Many times we think we are hungry but we are really in need of hydration from water. Skip the sodas completely &ndash; they don&rsquo;t count as hydration! And they have not-so-good stuff in them [read the label] and they do not-so-good stuff to our bodies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><u>Cook with your kids<\/u>.&nbsp;Cook up a storm with your kids one day a week and freezing the foods makes it very easy to have good, healthy and fast meals all week. Microwaves are good defrosters &ndash; but if you do not have one, take out the frozen meals in the morning and they will defrost by dinnertime.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Yes there may be more of a mess &ndash; but your kids will have had fun, be eating healthier foods &ndash; and you know what?&nbsp;have them help clean up the mess&#8230;that&rsquo;s part of cooking too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">There is more info and more suggestions in my ebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/its-not-always-baby-fat\"><em>It&#39;s Not Always Baby Fat<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve written a lot about obesity and why it is detrimental to your children.&nbsp; [Some of these posts are listed below in the area for related posts.] Here, I&rsquo;m suggesting a few ways you can start better eating habits in your own family &#8211; starting with things you can control: your own kitchen your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[532,379,307,259,492,493,491,261,480],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-child-development","tag-child-psychology","tag-child-rearing","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-cooking","tag-healthy-foods","tag-kids","tag-nutrition","tag-parenting","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}