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3 Key Principles To Help Make Your Family Meals Healthier - an interview with Dr. Maya Adam
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We are competing with the fast food industry and the processed food industry when we are trying to get our children to eat in a healthy manner. Here are 3 ways to make family meals healthier and how to compete with potato chips... This is Part 3 of a series, "How To Feed Our Children More Nutritiously" from an interview with Dr. Maya Adam who is a specialist in child health from Stanford's School Of Medicine. Dr. Maya Adam is a mom of three children ages 12, 9, and 7. You can listen to the interview on The Parenting Journal Podcast on iTunes Here or Download Directly Here. 1. Vegetables first. Before you decide on the protein, think about the vegetables first...
Science Says NO to Spanking Your Toddler
1840 kids and 1840 mothers studied from when the children were infants through the children's teenage years.Study found that "if children experience severe punishment at 15 months they were more likely to exhibit increased aggressive and delinquent behaviors in the fifth grade. They were also less likely to show positive behaviors, such as helping others. " Spanking + other physical punishments led children in 5th grade (10 years later): to exhibit increased aggressive behaviors to exhibit increased criminal behaviors to be less likely to show positive behaviors, such as helping others A co-author of the study, Gustavo Carlo, Millsap Professor of Diversity...
Try These 2 Resources And You'll Cook More Healthily For Your Family
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2 Reasons Why Breastfed Babies Are Smarter
What's special? These 2 Factors do not include actual breastfeeding.
What are the 2 Factors that boost your child's IQ?....
Why Quality Reading with Your Children is Critical and How to Do it According to Your Child’s Age
We know reading with our children is critical, but did you know that there are specific ways to read with your child that improve your child’s future academic skills? A new study shows that a specific type of reading – explicitly “quality reading” – leads children to have better reading skills and literacy skills in kindergarten than those children who do not engage in this “quality reading.” So what is this “Quality Reading”? In a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics conducted in May of 2017, the research analyzed “shared-book reading” (where a child is reading with an adult). The...