5 Bad Eating Habits You May Be Teaching Your Kids

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

Also, use your free time in preparing healthy snacks for toddlers with your older kids in order to teach them the value of healthy eating.

In a nutshell, make sure to avoid these meals as much as possible and teach your kids healthy foods consumption. Certainly, we don’t mean to provide them with the best diet plans, but just try to introduce the basics of healthy eating.

#2 – Junk Foods Snacks

You may be thinking that grabbing a Sneakers’ bar or two before dinner time may not lead to any harm, but what you need to be aware of is that your kids may be adopting the same practice and then eating more junk food than necessary.

You should be sure that no matter how many times you keep on giving advises concerning health benefits of healthy foods, and no matter how much you structure your kids not to eat between the meals; they will learn from your actions, not words.

It is recommended that you provide your kids with 2 or 3 snacks a day. Try to give them one between breakfast and lunch and –if you have to- another one between lunch and dinner, and be more firm on this.

Also, try to choose healthy snacks such as peanut butter or yogurt which have healthy fats and proteins. All in all, try to hinder yourself first from all-day-long snacking for the sake of your children’s health.

#3 – Foods Rewards

We all would like to return home after a tiresome day and reward ourselves with snacks and treats. Also, there are many times when we do well in a project or a task and we believe that we deserve that candy bar or cake sitting in the kitchen.

However, we should be careful about this matter for we may be teaching our kids that for every successful task or homework they do, they will be deserving of a snack. Research has shown that rewarding children can be detrimental to the healthy eating habits you’ve been trying to implement within your household.