Monday, April 8, 2013

Responsibility lies in the Parent's hands

                    How many of you went home after school and pigged out while your parents were still at work? We have all been there and done that. If schools ban junk food and the parents aren't going to support this lifestyle as well, the kids will just go home and eat junk food, which defeats the purpose. This causes the school's revenue to go down, and there was no pint in making a better lifestyle for these kids. Schools should educate the children on healthy behaviors, but the parents should be the ones enforcing these rules.
                 Parents are role models for their kids, and they should be the one punishing the kids for not choosing the right food and not lie in the school's hands.It turns out that the vast majority of parents are failing their kids, at least when packing them lunch. When Dr. Charlotte Evans and colleagues form the University of Leeds surveyed children’s packed lunches in the UK, they found that only 1 in 100 met the standards for nutritional value set by government agencies. Any nutritionist will tell you that healthy eating starts at home.
              Below is a video that shows exactly what children think when purchasing food. A mother is going down the grocery isles picking up food to buy for the week, and behind her is her little girl mimicking her mother and picking up exactly what she buys. Schools should not start to enforce rules, when their foundation at home is not supporting these actions. Children at school will start to have resentment and not look forward to learning and engaging in school!


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