The older children get, the more they learn and try. Of course, unhealthy food is unlikely to bypass them. But it’s usually very tasty! And now parents have a need to talk with their children about food: its taste, properties, benefits and harms. And all children have their own taste preferences and we need to take them into account. In addition, it is important to understand where it is just preferences, and where it is the desire to achieve your goal and eat something tasty and unhealthy.
My husband and I are trying to pay more attention to healthy eating and explain to our children which foods are best to eat and which ones should be avoided. In principle, we always strive to prepare healthy food, and we hold it in high esteem. Children eat most fruits with pleasure and even love broccoli :)
But difficulties arise with sweets and other unhealthy products. How to explain to a child that they are harmful if they are so tasty? I think we should just buy less junk and talk more about healthy food, cook it and eat it. It is for such conversations that I have developed a new thematic kit “Healthy Eating”.
Included There are several tasks for discussing with your child his taste preferences, games dedicated to vegetables and fruits, as well as games for identifying healthy and unhealthy foods, as well as a task for discussing the very concept of “healthy eating”.
In addition to the set, I highly recommend you a new book from the publishing house “MYTH”, called “Vitamins”, author Agnieszka Sowińska. In it, vitamins and minerals are shown as funny characters with different personalities. For example, vitamin C is a jack of all trades, iodine is an engineer of the whole body, it helps different organs work, especially the brain, vitamin E is always young and cheerful, and magnesium calms everyone down.
We read a book about vitamins like this:
At the beginning, we open a new spread with or, Ksyusha herself reads its name, carefully consider who lives in it, then we return to the spread with a description of the vitamins and read about them, then again we look at the picture with vegetables and fruits and discuss useful vitamins and minerals.
This book gives a lot of food for thought and discussion about the usefulness of foods. Thanks to her, children know what calcium and iodine are, why vitamins are needed and why it is important to eat vegetables and fruits every day.
Without exaggeration, I can say that this is a very important and useful book. It makes it easier to explain to a child the essence of healthy eating and convey its importance. In addition, having “become acquainted” with vitamins personally, children begin to eat fruits and vegetables even more willingly.