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    Educators can promote healthy eating habits among young children by modeling positive behaviors, teaching about nutrition, and engaging families and communities. They can create a relaxed environment for mealtimes, sit and eat with children, and encourage trying new foods. Educators teach children through activities like gardening, cooking, and farm visits. They provide information to parents and work with staff and administration on improving nutrition. Promoting healthy eating requires involvement from educators, families, and communities.

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    Educators can promote healthy eating habits among young children by modeling positive behaviors, teaching about nutrition, and engaging families and communities. They can create a relaxed environment for mealtimes, sit and eat with children, and encourage trying new foods. Educators teach children through activities like gardening, cooking, and farm visits. They provide information to parents and work with staff and administration on improving nutrition. Promoting healthy eating requires involvement from educators, families, and communities.

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    Educators can promote healthy eating habits among young children by modeling positive behaviors, teaching about nutrition, and engaging families and communities. They can create a relaxed environment for mealtimes, sit and eat with children, and encourage trying new foods. Educators teach children through activities like gardening, cooking, and farm visits. They provide information to parents and work with staff and administration on improving nutrition. Promoting healthy eating requires involvement from educators, families, and communities.

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    Educators can promote healthy eating habits among young children by modeling positive behaviors, teaching about nutrition, and engaging families and communities. They can create a relaxed environment for mealtimes, sit and eat with children, and encourage trying new foods. Educators teach children through activities like gardening, cooking, and farm visits. They provide information to parents and work with staff and administration on improving nutrition. Promoting healthy eating requires involvement from educators, families, and communities.

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    Research Question:
    How can educator’s role model and promote healthy food choices in an early childhood
    environment?
    Working Thesis:
    Educators can role model and promote healthy food choices in an early childhood
    environment by following three simple steps; creating and modelling a healthy eating
    atmosphere, teaching children about healthy eating patterns and providing information
    to parents, caregivers and the community around them about healthy food habits.
    Establishing Information:
     Making healthy food choices is essential for child development
     Early childhood is an important time to establish healthy eating patterns
    o Educators and peers in the early childhood settings can help influence
    children to make healthier choices at an early age
    o Children learn better when they watch their peers; visual leaners
    o Children tend to mirror behaviours they see around them
     (behaviours they see in their families or communities)
     Important to develop healthy eating patterns early in life
    o Good nutrition is one of the key ingredients to a healthy lifestyle
    o Early years are an opportunity to teach healthy habits that will stay with
    them as they grow
     Children are young and naïve; they need positive role models to help them
    succeed in life

    Supporting Argument #1:


     Topic Sentence: Educators can create and help model a healthy eating
    atmosphere by (Healthy Eating Advisory Service, 2013, para.6)
    o Making meal times relaxed and comfortable
    o Sitting and eating with the children (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg. 2)
     “Children as young as 2 years old have been found to accept or
    reject novel foods when live peer modeling was involved.” (Kim, E.
    B et al., 2019, para. 2)
    o Being positive role models with a variety of food
     “Not everyone likes every food, and that’s okay. Encourage kids to
    say “no, thank you” or teach them what you would like them to say
    or do if they don’t want to eat something.” (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg.
    2)
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    o Encourage fussy eaters to try new foods, new textures, play around with
    food to increase their interest
     “Play is how children make sense of their world and is an effective
    method of learning for young children.” (Best Start Expel Panel on
    Early Learning, 2014, pg. 9)
    o Being positive and encouraging about the healthy food choices the
    children are making
    o Talking about the benefits of eating together (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg. 2)
     “Social norms and modelling have been identified to have powerful
    effects on eating behaviour.” (Kim, E. B et al., 2019, para. 1)
    Supporting Argument #2:
     Topic Sentence: Educators can teach children about healthy eating patterns by
    (Healthy Eating Advisory Service, 2013, para.9-10)
    o Being creative and engaging children through discussion, questions,
    games and activities
     “Children develop learning strategies from first-hand actions with
    objects in their world and from exchanging points of view with peers
    and adults.” (Best Start Expel Panel on Early Learning, 2014, pg. 9)
    o Set up a vegetable garden; try some cooking activities with the produce
    that you’ve grown together
     “Children are more likely to eat foods they help you to prepare.”
    (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg. 1)
    o Having a compost bin or worm farm
     Get the children talking about leftovers and the importance of not
    wasting food (Healthy Eating Advisory Service, 2013, para.8)
    o Take a field trip to a farm or a farmer’s market
     “Developing kits with a recipe and ingredients to send home to
    encourage families to cook at home with children.” (Kalich, K et al.,
    2012, pg.169)
    o Make mealtimes about building relationships and quality time between
    families
     “Eating together provides a time to be connected. This helps
    children feel loved, safe, and secure.” (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg. 1)
     “Eating together gives young children the chance to learn more
    words and how to communicate better.” (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg.
    2)
    Supporting Argument #3:
     Topic Sentence: Educators can provide information about healthy food habits to
    parents, caregivers, and the community members around them (Healthy Eating
    Advisory Service, 2013, para.8)
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    o “Families are the first and most powerful influence on children’s early
    learning and development.” (Best Start Expel Panel on Early Learning,
    2014, pg. 3)
    o Working with other staff, the cook and management on how to improve
    meal times or snack times for children
     “Eating together is more likely to happen when everyone helps.”
    (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg. 1)
    o Contributing to and supporting organizations healthy eating policy
     “The web of family and community is the child’s anchor for early
    development.” (Best Start Expel Panel on Early Learning, 2014, pg.
    3)
    o Passing on information to parents about healthy eating
     Encourage parents to involve their children when preparing meals
    (HealthLinkBC, 2017, pg. 1)
     “Creating events that involve family members to join their children
    in different cooking activities, for example: Dad’s night out (Dads
    join their children in cooking activities in the classroom).” (Kalich, K
    et al., 2012, pg.169)
    Conclusion:
     Eating well is fundamental to good health, well-being, and early childhood
    development
     As role models, educators and care givers need to demonstrate healthy eating
    behaviours so children have healthy attitudes about food and develop lifelong
    healthy habits.
     Communicating and sharing between families and early childhood educators is
    an important aspect of supporting healthy eating
    o Ask parents about family recipe’s, traditions around food, or share cultural
    snacks; involve them in menu planning
    o Have healthy eating insert in monthly news letters
     As educators our attitude influences the children in our care; it is important to
    encourage and practise healthy food choices
     Educators, families and communities go hand in hand; its important to exercise
    and promote healthy eating habits at school and at home aswell
     “Family involvement in early childhood settings benefits children
    and multiplies children’s opportunities for learning.” (Best Start
    Expel Panel on Early Learning, 2014, pg. 3)
     It is important for educators to be involved and engaged with children in order to
    promote and role model healthy eating habits
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    References

    Best Start Expert Panel on Early Learning. (2014). Excerpts from “ELECT”. Retrieved

    March 26, 2020, from

    http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/childcare/ExcerptsFromELECT.pdf

    Healthy Eating Advisory Service. (2013). Promoting Healthy Eating in Early Childhood

    Education and Care Services. Retrieved March 26, 2020, from

    https://heas.health.vic.gov.au/early-childhood-services/promoting-healthy-eating-

    early-childhood-education-and-care-services

    HealthLinkBC. (2017). The Benefits of Eating Together for Children and Families.

    Retrieved March 26, 2020, from

    https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/hlbc/files/healthyeating/pdf/the-benefits-of-eating-

    together.pdf

    Kalich, K., Russell, C., & Arnold, L. (2012). The Early Sprouts Cookbook: Vol. 1st ed.

    Redleaf Press.

    Kim, E. B et al., (2019). Using Remote Peers’ Influence to promote healthy food choices

    among preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 55(4), 703-708.

    https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdev0000669

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