Parenting Articles

“We estimate that 22 million of the world's children under 5 are overweight or obese," says Mary Bellizzi, an expert with the International Obesity Task Force. 

There are many books providing guidance on the benefits of healthy eating and how to make healthy snacks but few of them offer in-depth advice on how you can encourage your children to develop the habit of healthy eating. Children are continuously exposed to junk food and, more often than not, we find ourselves unconsciously offering children unhealthy options just to make them eat. Here are some tried and tested tips which can encourage your child to eat healthily now, and will help to develop a lifetime habit of healthy eating. 

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"Parents are children's first and most influential teachers. By reading to children or having them read to us, by making sure homework is done, by monitoring television use, by knowing how children spend their time, parents can have a powerfully positive effect on their children's learning." - U.S. Secretary of Education

Since the majority of a child’s time is spent outside of school, it is important to ensure that this time is utilized to teach children life skills. Schools focus on the development of limited number of skills and intelligences even though the success of individuals depends on a much wider array of skills. The onus of developing these skills rests with the parents.

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We often hear book lovers lamenting over the fact that in this era of technology, books are almost forced to take a backseat. Considering the age we live in, technological improvements have brought in certain unavoidable changes. In spite of that, no one can really deny that books still remain the most reliable source of knowledge for people of any age.

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Early childhood is an important phase in the life of human beings. It may prove to be a troublesome time for the parents of toddlers since they have to be extremely conscious about the child’s physical care. The biological and brain development of children during the first few years of their lives depend entirely on the quality of stimulation that is evoked by their environment – at all the three levels of family, community, as well as the society.

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