It’s not always simple and straightforward to persuade your children to eat healthy snacks. Try to experiment with certain peculiar techniques to promote snack-time health. Try to offer parallel choices. For example, never ask for the child’s wish for alternate choices. Instead, offer similar choices, such as regular or frozen yogurt, apples or oranges.
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What are the best snacks to keep on hand for hungry kids? You want to choose nutritious snack foods, those that are high in fiber and low in fat, but convenience is an important factor, too. And don’t forget to honor your child’s preferences, if that is possible. Your child will be more likely to [...]

The school age children from 7 to 12 years of age begin choosing their own snacks. Your child may even take charge of preparing his or her after-school snack. Kids this age often clamor for the latest fad snack food, which may well be heavily advertised as healthy choice even moms can endorse. Despite advertising [...]

Snacking is a major activity for many American children, so much so that nearly one-fourth of kids’ daily power intake comes from nibbling between meals. If snack time threatens to become more frequent than mealtime, healthy snack choices are all the more important.
You play a major role in helping your children distinguish between healthy and [...]

This method, in which children share a bed with their parents, is common in many cultures and is part of a child-rearing philosophy known in the United States as the one called attachment parenting. It’s a sleeping method more than a technique for getting a baby to sleep well. This approach, not to be confused [...]