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Partnering with Parents: Addressing Challenging Food Behaviors in Children

Learn how to address specific food challenges with parents and explore strategies to improve parent engagement, nutrition education, and establish nutrition policies in your center.

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Partnering with Parents: Addressing Challenging Food Behaviors in Children

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  1. Module 5:Partnering with Parents Cooking Matters EXTRA for Center-Based Child Care Professionals

  2. Partnering with Parents A child in your class arrives at school every morning eating pizza and a lollipop. How would you address this with her parent?

  3. Partnering with Parents A child in your class eats so much he throws up sometimes. How would you address this with his parent?

  4. Partnering with Parents A parent complains that her child won’t try any new foods at home. How would you talk about this with her parent?

  5. Partnering with Parents • What can your center do to improve: • One-on-one communication with parents? • Nutrition education for parents? • Involving parents in the nutrition program? • Sticking to the established nutrition policies or developing new ones? • Referrals for medical or mental health services for feeding-related issues? • Referrals for food assistance?

  6. Healthy Classroom Celebrations Policies in your center? Sweets or no sweets? Family members or no family members? Food or no food? Photos or no photos? Every birthday or once a month?

  7. Healthy Classroom Celebrations Source: http://gethealthyandfitwithme.blogspot.com

  8. Healthy Classroom Celebrations Source: http://thecraftedsparrow.blogspot.com

  9. Healthy Classroom Celebrations Martha’s Table, Washington, DC

  10. Planning for Parent Engagement • Classroom Healthy Living Center • Parent Education Nights • Monthly or weekly healthy eating bulletin board • Nutrition policy • Involving parents in nutrition activities

  11. Questions? Cooking Matters EXTRA for Center-Based Child Care Professionals was developed with support from the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation

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