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Final month, I shared among the private story of how I speak to my very own youngsters about vitamin, and the way I reply questions from readers resembling “how do you speak to your youngsters about soda?!”. That publish is a superb introduction to this matter and it affords a variety of the context for the way I discuss meals and substances, extra typically talking.
As a observe up, I requested three of my favourite specialists on youngsters to reply extra questions to verify I’m sharing extra than simply my opinion on this matter. So right now we have now Dr. Mona Amin, Board Licensed Pediatrician and IBCLC from Peds Doc Discuss, Megan McNamee, MPH, RD, co-founder of Feeding Littles, Elizabeth Davenport, MPH, RD, LD from Sunnyside Up Vitamin right here to chime in.
To start out, a reader query:
I attempt to be impartial and descriptive about meals. Nevertheless my daughter (age 5) has began to ask me if sure meals are “wholesome”. They discuss “wholesome” and “unhealthy” meals at college and on sure days are solely allowed “wholesome” snacks. Any recommendation on methods to discuss “wholesome” along with her?
This appears to be a sizzling matter in colleges proper now. One other father or mother advised me in a dm yesterday that their kindergarten instructor was doing day by day classes on “wholesome” verses “unhealthy” meals and was truly throwing away meals from youngsters lunches she determined had been “unhealthy”. Her daughter is now SO anxious about bringing lunch to high school. Which, VALID. (All respect to academics all over the place, however PLEASE for the love of youngsters all over the place and their fundamental proper to eat meals at college, don’t do that!!)
I despatched this query to Dr. Mona as a result of I do know she sees a variety of households and I used to be curious to learn the way she responds. That is what she advised me.
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