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 Establish a Garden Bed With Your Child that is Just For Your Child! One of the hardest parts about gardening with children is letting go of your perfect rows or plant spacing. By establishing a garden bed just for your child, you allow them their own space to experiment in, while you work on more delicate garden tasks.
Vegetables and Fruits kids will love to watch grow (and then eat!):
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Teach your child the difference between artificial flavors and REAL Foods. Be Food Detectives over the next month and check out ingredient labels of foods that your family eats. Collect any packaged foods listed as having artificial flavors in a container in your kitchen. Make sure to save labels from snacks given at school, sporting events and church. Ask when you eat out whether what you order has artificial flavors or you can look it up online.
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Bring home the berries! Buy some organic blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries. If you can’t find fresh, frozen is fine. With your kids, make a list of how you can add more of these amazing foods to their diet – in yogurt, on cottage cheese, in smoothies, on celery and nut butter instead of raisins, or just eating them plain! Berries are loaded with antioxidants and have so many health benefits, one of them being increased protection from the damaging rays of the sun.
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So many of us are eating on the go these days and we're teaching our children this bad habit. By teaching your child to eat 'at a snail's pace' more often, you will be improving your child's health. Digestion begins in the brain. Thinking about food, smelling the aroma, seeing the colors, all send messages to the brain to get ready to break down and assimilate all these nutrients. Chemical changes actually happen in the body.
It's a great practice to teach kids to take a half a minute and express some sort of gratitude for their food while noticing the colors, smells and textures. This slows the body down and preps it for proper digestion.
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What are the colors of this holiday season? Every holiday has special colors associated with it. It's easy for kids to find those colors in foods they like to eat at the holiday, but unfortunately the colors usually come from fake food ingredients. This holiday season spend some time with your family brainstorming a list of REAL foods that have the colors of the holiday season. Go to the grocery store together, finding and buying the fruits, vegetables and other REAL foods with colors that match those of the holiday season.
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