Nutrition & Exercise
How can parents promote good eating habits in children?
Model healthy eating and eat together as a family.
Why is it helpful for parents to know what to expect at different stages of a child’s development?
It helps parents to know how to nurture and guide their children through each stage and deal with all the changes.
Refers to a child's ability to relate to and communicate with others.
In addition to being clean, how do good personal hygiene skills benefit children?
They help a child to feel competent and confident.
The meaning of the acronym ACEs.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Give 2 examples of healthy snacks for children.
Answers will vary. Examples: Cottage cheese, apples and peanut butter, cheese sticks, yogurt, carrots or other veggies with hummus.
What is manual dexterity?
The ability to manipulate objects with both hands
Refers to a child's ability to identify, understand, and express their feelings and emotions.
What is emotional development.
How can parents make bathing a pleasant and fun experience for small children?
Offer bath toys, be supervised at all times, make it relaxing.
An example of an experience that is considered an ACE.
What are parental separation (due to divorce or incarceration), witnessing or experiencing violence or abuse, having a parent with a mental illness, parental substance abuse, and neglect.
How might parents deal with a child who is a finicky eater?
Offer a variety of foods, try serving a rejected food in a different form, offer substitutes that provide similar nutrients, serve finger foods, don’t force kids to eat foods they don’t like, don’t be overly concerned with children’s food phases.
When do children begin to lose their primary teeth?
When have they usually gotten all of their permanent teeth?
Around age 6.
Around age 13.
Give an example of an activity that would promote a child's social development.
Talking to them, playdates, going to the park, etc.
What are 2 signs that a child is ready to be toilet trained?
They are aware of the process of elimination.
Complains about wearing a soiled diaper.
Has predictable bowel movements.
Has at least 2 hours between elimination events.
True or False: ACEs increase the chance of future health and mental health issues.
What is TRUE.
List two ways to make learning to self-feed easier for a toddler.
Provide the child with small utensils.
Serve finger foods, serve foods that are soft and easy to eat with a spoon.
The ability to self feed, build towers, and use scissors are all examples of what kind of skills?
Fine or small motor skills.
Give an activity that would promote a child's emotional development.
Reading books on emotions, playing feelings charades, asking them questions about how they are feeling and what makes them feel that way, etc.
What are some examples of bedtime routines?
Reading books, singing songs, having a bedtime snack, bath time, and more.
How are ACEs like the "well" in the TED talk we watched?
They are the common denominator in children with a lot of these health, and mental health, issues being seen over and over by pediatricians.
What are the benefits of exercise for children?
Exercise strengthens bones, improves heart health, and controls weight.
The ability to walk, skip, throw a ball, and jump are all examples of what kind of skills?
Give an example of an activity that would promote a child's fine (small) motor skills development and one that would promote a child's gross (large) motor development.
Small: stickers, using tongs or clips to pick items up, playdoh, coloring, etc.
Large:obstacle courses, music and motion activities - dancing, tball, tag, kicking a ball, throwing a ball, etc.
How can parents help children to establish good sleep habits?
Create bedtime schedules and routines and limit TV time (rule out scary and violent content).
What are ways we can help to prevent ACEs and work toward healing for those children that have experienced ACEs?
Why should you be aware that ACEs exist?
Answers will vary.
Will help me as a future parent to understand that my actions/choices have long-term consequences for my children. In employment, will help me to know how to best serve my patient/client/student/etc.