Build healthy habits for your students now! Four years goes by in a flash. Make sure you use this time to offer lots of attractive healthy choices that your kids will make a routine part of their lives:
- Healthy snacks and meals: it takes time and energy. Involve them by getting their requests for fruits and vegetables and other healthy foods. Make sure they’re readily available for your students to have at home, pack for school, and take with them when on the run. When I was growing up, my mom would always put out a platter of different fresh veggies with a healthy dip in the middle. It would always disappear quickly…try it! Bonus idea: make a “hummus” by blending a can of beans and add some tahini and different spices.
- Help your students learn how to put together an easy, nutritious and tasty meal:
- Prepare a grain: rice, quinoa, pasta
- Vegetables: steamed, sauteed, roasted
- Healthy protein: (I prefer roasted tofu)
If you “batch cook” and make a big bowl of each, you’ll have enough for a few meals, or at least leftovers.
It takes a village- keeping our students healthy and safe is our highest priority. Give yourself permission to regularly speak with your own kids about safe and healthy behaviors. That includes drinking alcohol, substance use and sexual activity. Talk with your kids about what routines and practices will keep them stay healthy and strong so they have as many positive options to choose from in their future.
Please, let me know if you have questions or need support.
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Always Your School Nurse,
Dvora Citron, RN, MS
dcitron@auhsdschools.org, 925-280-2970 x7128
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