Tips for ensuring children get the nutrition and play they deserve

Are you a parent? Are you a school teacher? Are you a child care-giver?

1. Give your child the much needed early years nutritious foods.

2. Engage your child in  routine physical activity, 

3. The child should be allowed to explore the surrounding environment as this also contributes to her/his growth and development.

Remember, "positive social and emotional environments are critical to our health and well-being," 

Robert J. Wood Foundation. 

i. Expanding access to healthy foods, to help ensuring kids are able to grow up at a healthy weight;


ii. Teaching kids social and emotional skills at home, in child-care settings and in the classroom;


iii. Creating schools where education and health are linked; and


iv.Empowering families, educators, providers, and other caring adults to create safe and healthy environments where kids can grow, learn, and succeed.