Diet education is not a class or a meal, but a kind of life education, which is a subtle process.
Adults need to consciously guide children to feel and pay attention to all aspects of "food" in daily life, so that children can learn a lot in practice that they can't learn in the text:
Teaching children to feel the true taste of food can inherit the reverence for nature;
Understanding and love for other creatures or plants in nature; Gratitude for food;
Team spirit and cooperation spirit. All this is a process of cultivating children to enrich their hearts.
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Family education publicity
In the process of implementing the series of food education, we can popularize the importance of food education and the significance behind it with parents in various forms, so that food education can be truly implemented in all aspects of children's lives.
Parents conducted a questionnaire survey according to their children's performance at the dinner table after returning home. The contents of the survey include whether eating time is too long, whether sitting posture is correct, whether picky eaters, whether eating while watching TV, whether holding chopsticks correctly, whether chatting while eating, the strength and speed of chewing, whether eating a lot and expressing opinions freely.
Helping parents know more about healthy food through tips or lectures will be better for their children's growth and development.
Introduce seasonal recipes for parents in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and recommend popular recipes and snacks for children.
Hold parent talks or parent salons to understand or exchange the following contents: the importance of breakfast, how to prevent loss of appetite in summer, the secret of milk, how to eat it to prevent colds, and how to shop and cook environmentally. ...
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Cultivate correct eating habits
Parents must consciously cultivate their children's habit of eating breakfast, lunch and meals on time, especially breakfast. Let children master the life rhythm of eating on time from an early age.
Know how to wash your hands before and after meals, and you can also guide your children to thank those who prepare meals before meals and thank the delicious food of each meal;
After dinner, I also learned to tell others before leaving the table: "I'm full, thank you";
When eating, try to eat every grain of rice and every leaf;
Pick up your own garbage after dinner, leaving no residue.
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Distribute monthly/weekly recipes to families.
Every month, Japanese kindergartens distribute a memorandum on "Food and Education". One side is the monthly cookbook, which lists many items in the form of a table, detailing what to eat on a certain day of each month:
The first column is the name of the dish;
The second column of calories is nutrients (salt, protein, fat, calories, etc. ) in a day's diet;
The third column is the name of the material, which is subdivided into three items, including what is hot food and what ingredients are used; What meat food includes (even including which part of chicken or pig you eat) and what role food can play in children's physical development are very detailed.
The last column is the details of afternoon snacks.
Parents can stick it on the refrigerator at home and discuss the school menu for the next day with their children every night, such as eating purple rice in kindergarten today and chicken tomorrow. This way also helps to mobilize the enthusiasm of children to go to kindergarten.
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Launch a hometown cooking competition.
Food culture is an important part of regional, national and even national culture, and it is a precious intangible cultural heritage.
After years of precipitation, rural food culture not only contains many healthy and reasonable ingredients, but also is the link between residents and their hometown and the memory of their hometown.
Nowadays, many children have eaten all kinds of delicacies because of their living conditions, but they don't know what the special dishes in their hometown are, or because of the change of social environment, many children have followed their parents to their hometown since childhood, or settled abroad with their parents, and have never tasted the taste of their hometown, not to mention the story of their hometown.
Kindergartens can carry out the "Hometown Cuisine Competition" and make an activity plan according to the specific situation, so that children can learn about the food and practices in their hometown with their parents at home, and parents and children can help cook and set the table together.
Through activities, vigorously promote "local cuisine", promote the cultivation and protection of local characteristic crops, save traditional food culture, guide children to master the profoundness of traditional food culture in China, and attach importance to local characteristic food.
Actively inherit the local and China traditional food culture, and cultivate the feelings of loving hometown and motherland.
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Regular defecation on the same day every week
Some Japanese kindergartens have canteens, but they only provide lunch three times a week, and the other two days are "the same day", which is also part of "food education".
The purpose is to let the mother experience the fun of cooking lunch for her children, and let the children read their mother's love and experience their mother's hard work when eating. ...
Teachers can make a "defecation day" once a week/month according to the specific situation of class parents. If the garden conditions do not allow, parents can be invited to make snacks and tea breaks for their children to taste during meal time.
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Bento sports meeting
It is not only a sports meeting for children, but also a lunch show for mothers. Japanese people attach great importance to sports, and sports meetings are as grand as festivals.
Children's games in Japan are usually held on weekends, so that all family members, including grandparents, can participate and become members of children's solidarity groups.
After the children are sweating, it's time for lunch. There are all kinds of lunches. Refueling lunch, Aiko lunch, cherry blossom viewing lunch, sports lunch ... some win by quantity, some by form.
The basic staple food of box lunch is rice, which supplements carbohydrates to ensure the basic energy supply of the sports meeting. Chicken, as a side dish, supplements high-quality protein and provides the most important nutrition for the body. Broccoli, lettuce, asparagus, small tomatoes and other rich vegetables supplement vitamins that are easy to consume during exercise.
Mother's nutritious lunch will make children full of energy and add points to their grades. Seeing the happy expression of the child and the satisfaction of eating all the lunch boxes is the greatest affirmation for the mother.
According to the specific situation, the garden can add a lunch session on the basis of the parent-child sports meeting, so as to enrich the forms of activities, let parents get a sense of accomplishment in the activities, and let children feel their mother's intentions.
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Cooking with children
The work in the kitchen is also a very comprehensive artistic creation process. The first is the appearance, size, color, texture, taste, temperature, season and so on. All ingredients will be considered in the container. Then to the layout of the dining table and the creation of the scene atmosphere, every link is meticulous and exquisite.
When children master the basic skills of color, proportion, modeling, order and collocation, and can join in the understanding and beauty of human nature, emotion and philosophy, it will be as interesting as a game.
Mom and dad can let children participate in many things that even children can do, such as peeling boiled eggshells, washing potatoes, or cutting cabbage and mixing seasonings, so that children can participate in the preparation of meals and answer their questions in the process, thus enhancing parent-child feelings.
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Involve children in simple housework.
Older children can be asked to help prepare and arrange meals, and the fun of cooking and the hard work of housework can also be felt by children.
Realizing the importance of being a family member can also exercise children's self-care ability and sense of serving others, and may also sprout children's gratitude for food.
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The whole family sat around the dining table.
Let the children feel the fun of sitting around the table together.
The dining table is the best place to exchange feelings. It is also a good experience to share interesting things with your parents or learn to listen to their things or ideas.
If circumstances permit, parents can ask their children to invite good friends to dinner, which must be very enjoyable for their children.
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Choose beautiful and safe tableware together.
For children, in addition to the delicious food and balanced nutrition, the value of tableware also determines their dining interest index.
Mom and dad can take their children to the store to choose their own household tableware, giving them not only a plate and a bowl, but also a full appetite.
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Go to the vegetable market or the farm together.
Mom and dad can take their children to the vegetable market to contact and buy ingredients, and then serve them after understanding the true colors of vegetables;
Understand the difficulty behind the busy figure of the food stall owner, learn to cherish the food and the fruits of others' labor, understand that everyone has his own role and task and its importance, and let the children feel the breath of life in the vegetable market.
Experience the process from sowing and harvesting to cooking with children. It depends on the specific situation, such as planting in the planting field and opening a small vegetable garden at home. Work with children, feel the hard work, be full of awe of nature and soil, cherish and appreciate food.
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Create a sense of dining ceremony together.
Mom and dad can take their children to feel the changes and differences in different seasons and solar terms, and understand the growth process and maturity time of grains, vegetables and fruits in different time periods.
Taste the freshest fruits and vegetables by season, cook seasonal dishes, give each solar term a different sense of ceremony, and let the body slowly follow the natural rhythm.
Or launch "holiday dishes" in different festivals, so that children can have more understanding and cognition of festivals through diet.
You can also create a surprise for meals and outdoor picnics. Parents can take their children to eat in the yard according to the weather, or take them to have a picnic in their spare time on weekends, which is also a good memory.
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Learn the fun of eating songs and picture books together.
There are many picture books and children's songs about food, which are profound and interesting and very suitable for preschool children. You can kill two birds with one stone while experiencing the fun of reading.
Recommended food and education picture books | Children's food and education picture books
Picture book recommendation | Education begins with "eating", the story of food and education in picture books
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Watch a food documentary together.
Now is the information age, children have been exposed to various electronic products since childhood, and intuitive and vivid visual learning is also one of the ways that children are most interested in.
Mom and Dad can discuss with their children the time spent watching cartoons every day to watch food documentaries, feel the profoundness and unique charm of China's food culture, and intuitively understand the differences of different regions and ethnic groups' food, as well as the humanistic feelings behind them.
Such as China on the Tip of the Tongue, Flavor World, Breakfast China and other food documentaries.
As Chen Xiaoqing said, food never exists alone. It is closely related to soil, earth, memory and human beings, so it is difficult to cut. Behind every unforgettable dish or food, there are always stories, big and small.
Then "home" is the most wonderful place to connect people with food and people with people. Children's "food education" will start here and eventually return here. This is the essence of life education.
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