The information I have researched on children’s nutrition also enables me to advise parents about the foods their children eat, advise such as, having meals as a family which will encourage the children to eat as they see everyone else eating, serve different healthy foods as the same foods will bore the child and they will not eat it, to eat healthy to encourage the child to eat healthy and to involve the children in preparing and making the foods as this will make meals times more fun for them. (http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/habits.html), information like this can be put into a leaflet for the parents to encourage healthy meals at home. A3/A*2 There are many skills required within the setting, it is important that practitioners have empathy for the child so that they understand what the child is going through as they may feel left out if all the other children have a different food to them because that child is allergic, the child may be too young to understand why they have different foods, so it is important to explain to them that it is for their own good in order for the child to grow and develop correctly. I have seen this in my placement, when a child is allergic to foods, the child asked why couldn't they eat the foods that other children were having, sometimes the child would say that she disliked the foods that were given to her in an attempt to get the foods that the other children were eating, however the practitioners explained to her that the foods the other children were eating were bad for that child’s stomach therefore they found alternative healthy foods that gave the child the nutrition that is needed to grow and develop. It is important that practitioners have good and effective communication with both the children and parents within the setting to be able to interact with them both, for example, if a child with a genetic disability has trouble doing something and the practitioner is unable to understand them due to their disability then this is poor practice as something could be seriously wrong with the child therefore it is important for the practitioner to take responsibility in order to
The information I have researched on children’s nutrition also enables me to advise parents about the foods their children eat, advise such as, having meals as a family which will encourage the children to eat as they see everyone else eating, serve different healthy foods as the same foods will bore the child and they will not eat it, to eat healthy to encourage the child to eat healthy and to involve the children in preparing and making the foods as this will make meals times more fun for them. (http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/habits.html), information like this can be put into a leaflet for the parents to encourage healthy meals at home. A3/A*2 There are many skills required within the setting, it is important that practitioners have empathy for the child so that they understand what the child is going through as they may feel left out if all the other children have a different food to them because that child is allergic, the child may be too young to understand why they have different foods, so it is important to explain to them that it is for their own good in order for the child to grow and develop correctly. I have seen this in my placement, when a child is allergic to foods, the child asked why couldn't they eat the foods that other children were having, sometimes the child would say that she disliked the foods that were given to her in an attempt to get the foods that the other children were eating, however the practitioners explained to her that the foods the other children were eating were bad for that child’s stomach therefore they found alternative healthy foods that gave the child the nutrition that is needed to grow and develop. It is important that practitioners have good and effective communication with both the children and parents within the setting to be able to interact with them both, for example, if a child with a genetic disability has trouble doing something and the practitioner is unable to understand them due to their disability then this is poor practice as something could be seriously wrong with the child therefore it is important for the practitioner to take responsibility in order to