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Hello everyone,
This blog will focus on childcare, education, and all the great things that make child development fun. Please view my posts and leave a comment, I am looking forward to your insight and the correspondence.
Have a blessed and excellent day on purpose.
Synera
Hi Synera,
ReplyDeleteYour site looks great. I can't wait to read your blog post.
Mosadi
Thank you
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ReplyDeleteI love your blog page. I fine myself getting emotional when reading the alarming facts surrounding childhood obesity. It is definitely a growing problem here in the U.S. Just last week I heard that the FDA is about to start relabeling products where the nutritional facts are clearer and more understandable. What do you think? A step in the right direction? I believe this will be so beneficial to parents when they are determining what to feed their childen. The current labels can be extremely confusing. The information you listed relating to the percentage of obese childen is alarming. As a society we need to do more to protect our children and ourselves. Again, the information you have listed here on your cite is very imformative thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Angela Starks
Thank you.. Angela, the FDA could come into the homes of Americans and write down each ingredient on a note pad and children would still become over-weight. Why? Our society has become over-worked, under-paid, extremely dependent on micro-wave and fast food. The home-cooked meals are less and less each year. Parents are going back to school, working over-time, or working multi jobs, and grandparents are not always available to assist in the home. The childhood obesity crusade has to be tackled one house-hold at a time. Parents must find ways to incorporate and /or increase physical activity in their children's daily routine. What children eat is imperative to proper physical, mental, and cognitive development as well as 30 mins of physical activity in their daily routine.
DeleteI am a 53 year old, over-weight, African American female, and I have joint issues, and high blood pressure. I have lost some weight, I visit the gym weather permitting six days a week, this is my issue. Nevertheless, this is what I did to myself. To see what parents are doing to their children and the young child ,adolescent or young adult experience such issue or worst, it too saddens my heart. When children can not play, jump, run "be children" due to overeating and lack of physical activity that's a problem. . As educators, we must make a stand and inform parents, children, and teachers that there is life beyond the cheeseburger, and lack of life within the cheeseburger.
Angela Greathouse
ReplyDeleteFirst your blog is beautiful.
Childhood obesity is one issue that is close to my heart. Every year I have at least one or more children in my class that are obese. I have a three year old child that I cannot pick up because he is obese. Yes it is the lack of outdoor play, to much fast foods and crime filled communities that are keeping our children indoors. Some of my parents bribe there children everyday with candy, french fries and shakes. As a teacher it is my responsibility to educated my parents about the dangers of childhood obesity and keep educating these parents until they make some healthy changes in their families lives.
YES!!!!! I have my 4-year-old twin granddaughters living with me, their mom is in the Navy. From their birth until now, the thought of offering the girls sweets or food to calm them or convince them has never been or will ever be an option. My daughter and I were talking today how if I need the girls to be calm I talk with them, not promise them food.. We must continue to educate our parents while the children are young and can still be given healthy foods, once they can travel to the corner store to buy the sweets they crave on their own, its over.
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