Healthy Ever After
| September 28, 2012 | Posted by Carrie under attitude about food, Fitness Friday, food, kids, nutrition |
Back in the spring (read #6) I got involved in a wonderful program sponsored by our local hospital at my son’s elementary school – Healthy Ever After. I love that the hospital has developed a program in coordination with schools, students and parents. Those just seem like the logical components to begin a healthy education program.
Hope you are feeling better! What a great idea for our schools!!
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Thank you. I was so pleased to see the turnout today – there are 10 schools in the program this year. So awesome!
What a great program! Such a great way for kids to learn about healthy choices:)
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It is such a great program. I love just having the conversation with kids and I love the philosophy of the dietitians that put the program together. It’s great!
I wish we could have a program like that at our school. My kids go to a Catholic school. I try to limit my kids exposure to the school food as much as possible. The lunches are better this year thanks to the new guidelines, though the teachers are still offering processed food snacks.
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What a great idea- how cool that you can participate! I think the healthy snack is definitely key- food keeps kids interested.
And kids definitely take home what they learn. Have fun with it!
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I’m so excited to participate. And the students I recruited were great too. I think I’ll be teaching my component next week, I’ll keep everyone posted.
Sounds like a great program!
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It is. Good luck getting ready for your competition. Inspiring!
Wow, that sounds like quite an undertaking — but so important!
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Thanks. It’s challenging to get a new program up and running, but hopefully it’ll get easier as time goes on.
That is awesome Carrie. I have tried to recruit interest for similar programs at our school but haven’t had any luck. I work in an elem school and the obesity rate of the students is mind boggling. Way to many students that can’t even walk up stairs without stopping on each landing. Makes me so sad.
Cudos to you for taking on such a great program and a huge task!
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Thank you. It’s nice that the program is run by the local hospital, so I’m not totally responsible – just at the school. At my husband’s school, there is a monthly nutrition program and it’s a little more simple with just a serving of a healthy snack. It’s nice to at least expose the kids to healthy options and expand their taste buds a bit.
It sounds like a great program. They do have the tiniest amount imaginable in nutrition education at my kids’ school, but it is just lip service as proven by the ice cream and juice available in the cafeterias. It’s great that you are heading up the program!
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Thanks! California has a whole Healthy Classroom law that many schools don’t follow, but our elementary school does. It’s a little ridiculous when we have to serve veggies and popcorn only at classroom parties.