Some Tips to Promote Healthy Eating among Toddler

Food is define as the thing intake that supplies the nutrients needed as a source of energy for activity of the body, and as structural materials for every cell of the body while nutrition might be defined as the science of food and the way the body uses them. Your toddler must achieve nutrition found in various foods with nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins. Good nutrition and balanced diet help your toddler to grow up healthy.

Providing healthy foods for the family is one of a tough job as parents because of the busy schedules. Parents must spend a time for preparing healthy food than to have sick children. Some tips to promote healthy eating among toddler.

• Makes family meal is fun and exciting to improve nutrition and encourage healthy eating habits. For your toddler, you can prepare foods such as dried fruits or vegetable like peas, cube carrots, or corn and make it fun by allowing his or her to count those foods. This can be use as part of fun learning activities. Your toddler will eat a healthy food while playing the fun learning game with the food.
• Be sure to serve fruit or vegetable every meal for the whole family and serve lean meats and other good source of protein such as fish, beans, eggs or nuts.
  
• Make yourself an example. One of the best ways to encourage your child to eat healthy food is to be a role model for them. Eat with them healthy and nutritious foods. Children usually follow what the adult eat everyday. If you eat unhealthy foods such as candy, potato chips, and soda or drinking soft drink every snack, it might possible for them to imitate what you eat. What you should do is, eat fruits and vegetables and explain them the important of these foods in our body. Children notice your food choices and follow you as an example.
• Have regular family meals pleasant and positive by eating together as family.
  
• Avoid making comments on the type of foods about the amounts or type of foods your child intake. It actually reduces children’s acceptance of a new or different foods. Never use food as a reward or bribe.
  
• Gets your children involve in preparing food while teaching them the nutritional values of different foods. Let them decide what to make for dinner and selects food for their lunch box. Some may even want to shop the ingredient and prepare the meal. Also, teach them how to read the foods label and understand what to look for.
  

How much TV your kid needs?

Television can be good to our kids. It can be a source of learning. There are programs that teach them the alphabet and number, learn about plants and animals from nature shows and creative learning from art shows. Also, it can be source of entertainment and laughter such as music shows, comedies and game shows. Watching Television with kids can be fun wherein each member will enjoy discussing and enjoying the show.

However, too much television can have negative effect especially when our children watch the wrong shows such as shows that depict violence, which lead our children to be aggressive. Children don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, fear can be developed and believe that the world is scary and something will happen to them.

Some pointers to remember when watching television with your children

• Be a good example. Aware what programmes your watching when children around and the amount of time spent in watching television.
• Aware with the kind of programmes watched by your kids. Watch the preview so that you will know the content.
• Enforce rules regarding watching television. Limit the watching television hours. One to two hour a day is the upper limit, no television during meal time and while doing home works, etc.
• Watch television with your children. In this case you can assess the programmes if it is violence especially when your child is watching a new show.
• Check the TV listing. Know the educational shows, kid-friendly show or family programmes.
  
• Explain to your child about what he or she sees in television. Discuss to them what they have learned from the show. Tell your children if the some act on television is not appropriate.
• Offer fun choices to television. Encourage your children to play with their playmates, read books, pursue art, board games and perform outdoor activities instead of watching television. Spent time with them when engaged in these activities and make fun for both of you.
• Make your children aware the cause of too much television viewing can be having negative effects in their attitudes. Tell them not to watch violence show because they can develop aggressive behavior and give them less time for their family and friends.
  

Always remember that anything that too much is not good. What really important is balance everything. Television can be helpful if you are able to monitor your children with the kind of programmes they’re watching.

Tips to Keep your Toddler Safe

Toddler is not aware things that are harmful or bad to them. They don’t know what is right or wrong. During toddler stage, a child is very busy in exploring the things around them. They tried to do things such as walking, climbing, and running. Sometimes they get trouble because they don’t know the potential danger is coming out so it’s up to the parents or caregivers to watch out. It is essential to provide them safe environment because nobody know when or where accident might happen. The more you warn your toddler, they even more interesting in the forbidden place or object. Toddler is curios by nature. Childproofing the entire room or house is not difficult to do. It reduces the chances of toddler’s injury.

There are some ways to prevent possible danger.

• Accompany your toddler while walking, running or climbing to avoid fall and other potential danger
• Take away all small items that can easily block in a toddler’s throat. In the blink of eye, toddler might shallow something that makes him choke.
• Use harness properly when seated to a high chair
• Keep electrical cords that are connected to appliances out of reach
• Lock cabinets containing knives, scissor and any other small items
• Keep away household cleaners, chemicals and medicines
• Use electrical covers for electrical outlet and latches
• Move breakable items to higher grounds
• Keep matches and lighters out of reach
• Don’t put hot fluid in the table or in the tablecloth or near your toddler in case the toddler pull it
• Have locked the door to prevent the toddler from going out
• Never leave your toddler near the container of water
• Do not allow your toddler near the stove and other hot appliances such as iron
• Keep a list of emergency phone numbers
• Close the room that is not child proof