The older children get, the more they learn and experience. Of course, junk food is unlikely to bypass them. But it's usually delicious! And now parents need to talk with their children about food: its taste, properties, benefits and harms. And yet all children have their own taste preferences and we need to reckon with them. In addition, it is important to understand where there are just preferences, and where there is a desire to achieve one's own and eat something tasty and not healthy.
My husband and I try to pay more attention to healthy eating and explain to children which foods are best to eat and which should be avoided. In principle, we always strive to cook healthy food, and we are held in high esteem. Children eat most fruits with pleasure and even love broccoli :)
But here with sweets and other not useful products there are difficulties. How to explain to the baby that they are harmful if they are so tasty? I think it’s worth just buying less harmful things and talking more about healthy food, cooking it and eating it. It is for such conversations that I have developed a new thematic set “Healthy Eating”.
Included there are several tasks for discussing with the child his taste preferences, games dedicated to vegetables and fruits, as well as games for determining 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 "MIF", called "Vitamins", by Agnieszka Sowińska. In it, vitamins and minerals are shown in the form of 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 various organs work, especially the brain, vitamin E is always young and cheerful, and magnesium calms everyone.
We read a book about vitamins like this:
At the beginning, we open a new spread with or, Ksyusha herself reads its name, carefully examines who lives in it, then we return to the spread with a description of vitamins and read about them, then again we look at the picture with vegetables and fruits and discuss useful vitamins and minerals.
This book provides a lot of food for thought and discussion of the usefulness of products. 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.
I can say without exaggeration that this is a very important and useful book. With it, it is easier to explain to the child the essence of healthy nutrition and convey its importance. In addition, having “acquainted” with vitamins personally, children are even more willing to start eating fruits and vegetables.
