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TIPS FOR CREATING A FAMILY MEAL ROUTINE: Keep it simple. Family meals only need family members + food! Find days during the week when family members are usually home together when a meal is happening. It doesnt need to be dinner any meal can be done as a family. Be consistent.
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Additional Resources

The Family Dinner Project: https://thefamilydinnerproject.org/ Dairy Council of California: Healthy Eating https://www.healthyeating.org/Healthy-Eating/Meals-Recipes/Family-Meal-Planning Ellyn Satter Institute: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.
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If learning to feed children wasn't complicated enough, once parents finally feel like they have a grasp on it, their child enters a new stage of development that forces them to learn new skills once again! Toddlerhood Better coordination and skills means increasing access to the world and new exper...
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Understanding how the stages of development affect childrens dietary behaviors can be helpful. These different abilities affect what parents can expect. Encourage parents to know their children's needs at different stages of development.
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Additional Resources

General: http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/devmile.htm https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/Pages/default.aspx Healthy Portions for Preschoolers http://articles.extension.
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Childrens tendency to like things that are familiar means it can take time to introduce new foods. Some children need to be served a new food 15 times or more before they will even try it. Parents may become frustrated and discouraged after such repeated refusals.
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Letting young children explore new foods when they are ready makes trying new foods less scary. It can help when new foods appeal to childrens senses (fun shapes, colors and smells).
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How to Handle Picky Eaters http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/health-nutrition/how-to-handle-picky-eaters.
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Making changes to children's diets and physical activity starts with the adults in the house. When caregivers eat healthy diets and are physically active, children tend to follow. In part this is because the adults are usually in charge of buying groceries and determining the meals.
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Tips

Make changes together with children. Let children see you eating healthy and being physically active. Join children in doing the positive behaviors being promoted. Use shared experiences with new behaviors to establish a new routine for the entire household.
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