Teaching Wellness to Children and Families Marie Curie ECE 214 Instructor O’Brien March 14, 2011 Teaching Wellness to Children and Families The Self-Inventory for Wellness Practices chart in Chapter 1 of our text is a very useful tool. Reading over these practices helped me gain some insight regarding my own wellness and the wellness of young children. Everyone could benefit from completing this Self-Inventory chart. When it came to some areas of the Self-Inventory for Wellness Practices regarding myself I was pleased to be able to answer most of the areas in a positive way. However, I am definitely slacking in some of the areas.
The purpose of the Georgia Eat Smart is to promote good nutrition, physical activity and wellness for k-12 students and their parents. (Barger, 2013) When children become healthy students they also become better students in the classroom. By educating teachers and staff nutrition staff how to teach students to have good eating and physical activity habits will allow the students to make health choices. (Barger,
Encouraging children to exercise daily will also go a long way towards alleviating negative symptoms. The First Lady, Mrs. Obama, has developed a program geared towards raising a healthier generation of youth called “Let’s Move” (2013). It recommends that children get about 60 minutes total of moderate to vigorous activity daily. The site documents the U.S. obesity epidemic and has a fully interactive menu for to be used by parents, teachers, and health practitioners. The site covers nutrition, fitness, and a simple guide to success towards creating a healthier
Unit 6 –promoting a healthy environment for children E1 Practitioners help children by promoting a healthy lifestyle and environment. There are several things a practitioner is supposed to do (these are there role and responsibilities) as stated by T. Bruce as “ ❖ Provide healthy meals and snacks. ❖ Practise good hygiene routines, such as hand- writing and teeth-brushing. ❖ Choose book and displays which reinforce healthy lifestyles. ❖ Use drama and music sessions to encourage children to express their feelings in a safe environment.
It allows their mind and bodies time rest, recuperate and prepare for the next day as well as maintaining good health. D3 The individual needs of babies are met by the practitioners following the routine of each baby. The individual will be fed at the required times using the foods provided by the parent. If the baby has a specific sleep routine that parents wish to have continued throughout the duration
So you are giving them both the equal opportunity to eat and have lunch. You are also giving them respect and dignity. It could be seen as disrespectful, bad practice and also discriminative to place lunch in front of someone who wasn’t able to feed themselves and just leave them in a vulnerable position, as a similar position is giving a vegetarian service user a meal that contained meat. It is always essential for care workers to largely promote equality, value, diversity and also respect and the rights of each and every service user. There are a lot of different ways of how they could be challenged regarding discriminatory issues and practice within health and social care.
If someone eats junk food all the time and that person’s mother or friend told him/her to eat healthy, it’s less likely that he/she will listen to them, but if he/she admires Jamie Oliver and he suggests to eat healthy, then there is more possibility for that person to follow what he says. If we do not have a good role model then we will not learn any behaviours and it can make our self esteem low . Humanism
Laquita Janifer Professor Matthew Norsworthy Eng 115 The Public Needs to Know (Revised) What's For Lunch? School health programs are becoming more and more popular as health concerns grow . Students need to be aware at younger ages of the concerns that face our society , and the ways that they can combat these concerns through good health knowledge. Several school districts have implemented comprehensive health curriculums and programs, and many states have standards regarding health education. Throughout the years children of all ages have become obese from the lack of nutrition, as well as exercise.
It is time to get parents to take the same responsibility to protect their children from unhealthy foods and lack of exercise. Even though fast food is all around us, parents have the control of teaching their children healthy eating habits. Parents not the fast food companies, not the governments are in the best position to stop
“As parents, we try to prepare decent meals, limit how much junk food our kids eat and ensure that they have a reasonably balanced diet,” said Mrs. Obama. “And when we are putting in all that