A Healthy Family Is a Happy Family
Today's healthy habits can benefit you and your children for years to come. Kids who have regular family meals are also:
• more likely to make healthy eating choices like fruits, vegetables, and grains
• less likely to snack on unhealthy foods
• more likely to make healthy eating choices like fruits, vegetables, and grains
• less likely to snack on unhealthy foods
• less likely to become substance abusers
So how do you get them all together (no matter what their ages), at the same time without causing a disaster? Make it fun! Here's how.
So how do you get them all together (no matter what their ages), at the same time without causing a disaster? Make it fun! Here's how.
| Family meals - happen anytime when at least one child and one adult sit together to eat and connect. Family style meals - happen anytime a group of people (may include children) sit together to eat and connect. |
Strategies to Help with Sitting Together
Tips for increasing family meals:
• Try breakfast instead of dinner.
• Try sandwiches instead of something hot.
• Involve all family members in food preparation.
• Turn off the ringer and turn on the answering machine.
• Turn off the TV It is NOT a family member!
More to come!
