DATES TO REMEMBER
October 7th, 2014 - First Day of Preschool for the 4 year old class
October 8th, 2014 - First Day of Preschool for the 3 year old class
October 10th, 2014 - Picture Day
October 13th, 2014 - DAYCARE IS CLOSED DUE TO THANKSGIVING
October 31st, 2014 - Halloween Costume Party
*Picture Day - Your child does not need to be enrolled in daycare on picture day for them to be in our group picture and have their picture taken. You are welcome to meet us in daycare and we will all go down to have our pictures taken, please contact the office to confirm the time to meet us at the daycare*
* Halloween Costume Party Day - on October 31, your child can wear their costume to daycare, take part in a costume parade, costume dance party, and halloween movie. Please remember if you are bringing treats to daycare that day, they must be NUT FREE, this rule is to ensure the safety of all the children in our care. Please also ensure that your child has alternative clothing other then their costume to wear at daycare on this day*
We are looking for donations of the following :
-Used K-Cups (rinsed out with the lids off please)
-Barbie Furniture
-Winter Hats and Mitts
-Sun Hats
. As We Grow....................................................................................
The Food Battle or The Change to Positive Eating
From the Feeding Dynamics perspective, conventional approaches to children’s food refusal and special needs interfere with good parenting with feeding and are likely to cause or worsen the very problem that such intervention is intended to address. Here are the reasons that conventional interventions are unnecessary and even counterproductive:
Food or energy prescriptions: Children vary greatly with respect to how much they need to eat. Calculated targets for energy intake can drastically overestimate or underestimate the child’s needs and increase the child’s resistance and/or discomfort relative to eating. In the long run, pressure to eat makes the child eat less, not more.
Positive reinforcement: Children eat because they want to. Praise, compliments, rewards, and other forms of outside reinforcement take away the child’s inborn desire to eat and pride in mastery.
Negative reinforcement (e.g., "Response Cost"): Children eat well when they feel positive about eating and food and are comfortable at family meals. Negative parenting, such as warning, punishing, withholding attention, etc. all undermine children’s positive feelings and comfort with eating.
Escape extinction: This really negative parenting really undermines children’s eating attitudes and inclination to eat.
Systematic approximation: Children eat well when they feel positive about it and are comfortable at family meals. Without prompting, they do their own "systematic approximation" by watching adults eat, by asking for the bowl to be put by their plate, by allowing food on their plate, touching or holding the food, and using other means to "sneak up" on the food. Systematic approximation using eating-related requirements imposed by adults take away those positive feelings and behaviors.
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Please take a look at the following link for some information on the division of responsibility it feeding, and how to work towards no longer having a battle over eating, but turning meal times into a positive time.
Halloween Treats
With the chance to dress up in costume and stock up on sweets, Halloween is the highlight of the year for many kids
— from toddlers to teens.
But since it's high season for candy, it can also be an frustrating time for parents who encourage kids to eat healthy foods and make sweets a limited part of a balanced and nutritious diet.
On the one hand, you want to let kids indulge and enjoy the holiday. On the other, you don't want to undermine all the work you do the rest of the year maintaining a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. And you don't want to confuse kids with mixed messages.
KidsHealth asked parents to share how they handle Halloween. Most mom and dads
— 82%
— set limits using a variety of strategies to keep kids from going overboard on the Halloween treats.
Many parents said that after letting kids indulge in some treats right after trick-or-treating, they limit their kids to a certain number of pieces each day or put the candy stash out of reach and out of sight. Then kids have to ask for it
— that is, if they remember that it's there!
One parent tried to limit the amount of sweets while also making sure that it was served up alongside something healthy. "They are allowed to select three items per day from the bag stored in the refrigerator, and they must have a glass of milk or water for each treat. After a week, they usually lose interest in the candy
— maybe just coming from the fridge it doesn't taste as good or is harder to chew with the item being cold. Or by the time it comes to room temperature, they've gotten full!"
Of parents who try to limit treats, most said that they successfully kept their kids from overindulging. Those who said that their efforts failed cited a variety of reasons
— from kids finding parents' secret hiding places to kids creating secret hiding places of their own. Other parents said that a big obstacle was having different caregivers for kids, from grandparents to babysitters, with different rules for the candy..............
REMEBER that Halloween, like other holidays, is a single day on the calendar. If your family eats sensibly during the rest of the year, it will have a more lasting impact than a few days of overindulgence.
for more on this article or similar articles please visit
http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_center/healthy_eating/halloween_hints.html#
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