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Creating healthy food habits - St. Augustine Record
If you want your children to be healthy eaters, teach them how to cook, share meals together and encourage adventurous eating.
“The key is to establish a culture of healthy, mindful eating through modeled behavior and teachable moments, and this can happen any time,” said children’s author and illustrator Lizzy Rockwell, author of “Plants Feed Me.” “My No. 1 tip is to talk about it when you are not eating. Try when shopping, going to the farmers market, working in the garden or planting a windowsill herb garden, visiting a farm or petting zoo, watching something relevant on TV or reading a book.”
Making meal time stressful or a battlefield is the mistake many parents make, including Rockwell herself when she was a parent of young children, she said.
If you want your children to be healthy eaters, teach them how to cook, share meals together and encourage adventurous eating.
“The key is to establish a culture of healthy, mindful eating through modeled behavior and teachable moments, and this can happen any time,” said children’s author and illustrator Lizzy Rockwell, author of “Plants Feed Me.” “My No. 1 tip is to talk about it when you are not eating. Try when shopping, going to the farmers market, working in the garden or planting a windowsill herb garden, visiting a farm or petting zoo, watching something relevant on TV or reading a book.”
Making meal time stressful or a battlefield is the mistake many parents make, including Rockwell herself when she was a parent of young children, she said.