Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Health topic
Due to the recent increase in overweight children could the reason be based on bad eating habits or poor parenting? I really feel that children are eating poorly because their parents are eating bad. The only way we as future teacher can change this it to sit down with the parents and young kids to create a great learning experience. One other program that I would like to create is health and home economics class that put real life cooking and teaching to work. What do you think?
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That's an awesome idea Mcgowan, however, there are positives and negatives to it. I feel that for children they don't have a choice because the parents pack them the lunch. As they get older they start to decide things on their own. Parents start sending money with their child because they don't have time to make a bagged lunch for the child. So, what happens is the child picks whatever, he/she wants and usually is something that is "junk food." Parents need to realize this. But, what can they do to help their child make better choices? I think it would be an awesome idea to start a cooking class at home. But, again another question pops up, what happens if these parents could only afford cheap things and those cheap food items are not healthy choices. Maybe sometime in the future, us as PE teachers, could maybe write a grant asking for these things. Or maybe we could help the student make a food list for the month and every time they follow their list at school/at home they will receive something good in return. Or, maybe the school district can ban all pop machines and vending machines full of junk food and instead replace those with yogurts, granola, juices, etc.
ReplyDeleteChildren are at the sole discretion of thier parents decisions. Children do not buy the food or cook it. In today's society, mostly both parents work which causes a time crunch within the family paradigm. Also, kids are involved more in sports and after school activities more which also makes hitting up a drive through more appetizing to parents. We live in a fast paced, instant gratification society and I do not see this changing.
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