In Squires interview with NPR News, she answered questions and focused mainly on children and an appropriate diet. She gives alternatives for fruits and vegetables for children that are selective eaters. She also states that genetics do play a role in obesity; having one parent that is overweight gives the child a high percentage of being obese but if both parents are overweight then the percentage is even higher. Sally Squires is a health writer and Lean Plate Club columnist for The Washington Post. Squire’s is co-author of “The Stoplight Diet for Children”, as well.…
Menu Project My menu is considered healthy because I used the USDA meal patterns. The USDA meal patterns is approved by the Child Care Commission as the minimum amount of good which can be served to comply with licensing standards for adequate nutrition. I chose the use the USDA meal pattern because I thought it best serves the needs of children in child care programs. I chose to prepare a menu for preschool children ages 3-5 year olds. I will start with breakfast.…
Centers offer breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, children will not go without nourishment for more than three hours. Menu components and servings for meals are based on healthy choices and will comply with the USDA “Choose my plate chart”. The menu promotes a variety of healthy foods, easy to serve, and of proper size by age group. Menus will be posted outside of each room available for parents. The nutritional aspects of center food programs, including menu planning and nutrition education will be coordinated with the dietitian.…
The first observation I did was at the Esmelda daycare, this daycare is a family daycare there the woman and husband showed me what they did every day they said that the toddler had hours for everything like what time they eat, how much time they had to play. Esmelda daycare promote language through play time she has book that help the toddlers learn the different animal or the ABC the woman would read the book to toddler by pointing to animal or letter and saying what it was she would also promote language by playing with the toys like counting how many Lego blocks there is or by saying the color of the toy right now. Esmelda daycare is not fully completed with all the material the toddlers need they are in process, but still not being a fully completed daycare you can see that the women and the husband take really good care of children when I was there as she was taking to me if the children need something she would stop and put attention to what the children need instead of just keep taking to me and ignored the child. Compare to the second observation did where each children age group has his own in Esmelda daycare see has all the children together he also has the toy room apart where they just go play when is play time and can’t go in until is play time again.…
The 1946 National School Lunch Act, which later led to the creation of the National School Lunch Program was a policy act made in response to the growing concern of hunger in the United States. Led by Senator Allen Allender of Louisiana and signed by President Harry Truman, the NSLP proposed to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children, while supporting the consumption of agricultural good. Even though, the NSLP’s goals was to provide for the safety of the children, the administration created many problems for the children including food insecurity and stigmatization. Thus, in this paper, I intend to follow the history of the NSLP, its characteristics and its general efficiency in responding to food insecurity. In addition,…
Observation: The YMCA daycare program is very different from Hope. I went back and forth between the two classrooms with children from ages 2 to 4 and I even spent a bit of time in the infant room. I learned more about the different temperaments of the children and how to address them. In addition, I also saw how children three to four years of age did not know how to say what they wanted so they would hit and throw things. I would have to say the biggest thing that I learned today was figuring how to get a positive behavior and not to reinforce a negative behavior.…
Newborns should be breastfed for the first six months of their life, and until the age of two with the inclusion of foods. Breastfeeding has an abundance of benefits for newborns that with help the newborn develop and prevention of health issues later on in life. This fact is not often known by every mother or mothers may not know the true importance of breastfeeding. Often times, mothers are just offered formula rather than having the encouragement of breastfeeding. There should be more education and programs put in place for mothers to have the support to breastfeed.…
Nutrition is an important part of early childhood. Young children need well-planned meals and snacks that come from a variety of foods to provide them with the nutrients needed to stay healthy and grow. For that purpose, the CACFP meal patterns, described in this section, are designed to help you plan nutritious meals and snacks for the children in your care. What is a CACFP meal pattern? The CACFP meal patterns outline the food components, types of food, and minimum quantities required for breakfast, snack, and lunch (or supper) for specific age groups of children.…
The purpose of this literature review is to look into the efficiently of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and other regulated school programs. The National School Lunch Program is a federal assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools a residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low cost, or free lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the national school lunch act, signed by President Truman in 1946. Adding to this program the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National school lunch and school breakfast programs to align them with the dietary guidelines for Americans.…
School and daycare vaccination requirements have become a hot topic in recent years. All fifty states require students to have vaccinations against specific communicable diseases. With these requirements came a set of exemptions for religious, medical, and philosophical reasons which differentiate from state to state (State School Immunization Requirements and Vaccine Exemption Laws, n.d.). Currently all fifty-one locations (includes the District of Columbia) requires vaccinations for public school students. Forty-seven locations require vaccinations for private school students (State School Immunization Requirements and Vaccine Exemption Laws, n.d.).…
Some special concerns about Pima County’s schools and educations come from the newly elected Pima County School Superintendent, Dustin Williams. He believes that the greatest challenge the schools are facing is the state’s failure to fund public education and that he will advocate for better lobbying efforts to make sure Pima County school’s needs are being met (Star, 2016). Since Pima County schools are having difficulty getting funding, this brings up the issue of teacher wages. An example of this comes from Utterback Magnet Middle School located in Tucson Unified School District (TUSD). Parents with children attending this school are saying that the school has inadequate security, inexperienced teachers, lack of books, no crossing guards,…
When picturing school lunches, many people may think of greasy and oily food that is unappealing and unhealthy. Is this a reality, or just a fiction? There is large controversy over whether this view should be altered or not. About 19,000 schools in the United States currently serve fast food in their cafeteria. Since this food is cheaper to make, many schools may find it a better option than healthier lunches.…
Analysis: My Daycare Analysis involves collecting data and organizing it based on criteria develops to find a trend to be able to provide and to the question belong. What do I want to discover? What are my biases about this topic?…
The United States Department of Agriculture defines food unsecurity as the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or the ability to acquire such food, is limited or uncertain for a household.…
The Effects of Daycare on Children’s Development Today’s children are tomorrow’s future. Therefore, how a child develops is not only important to the child, but also to our society as a whole. While realizing this factor, we come to the discussion of whether daycare helps a child to develop or is harmful to a child’s development. Despite some evidence that daycare can be harmful to a child’s development, many recent studies show that daycare for babies and young children has positive effects on cognitive abilities, social behavior, and language development. Daycare is a positive option for any parent wishing to prepare their child for school and their future.…