Category Archives: Healthy Eating for Your Child/Tween

Why YOU & YOUR kids should care about local farms?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Cynthia Lindsay RN

I’m sure you’ve all heard wonderfully colourful stories from your grandparents. You know the ones about walking 10 kms to school, up hill, both ways. I love hearing those tales and I’m lucky enough in my family to have heard … Continue reading →

Posted in Children & Tweens, Healthy Eating for Toddlers & Preschoolers, Healthy Eating for Your Child/Tween, Parenting, Parenting Your Child/Tween, Parenting Your Toddler & Preschooler, Toddlers & Preschoolers | Tagged family farms, farms, Food, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, grandparents, Halton, halton farms, kids, local farms, locally grown, parents, Physical Health, school health | Leave a comment

Rethink your drink! The “good to know” about sugary drinks and kids!

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Cynthia Lindsay RN

Anyone reading this blog who knows me… knows my vice. I drink pop. There I’ve admitted it! I don’t drink coffee, never have, never liked the taste of it. But I do really enjoy my caffeinated pop in a glass … Continue reading →

Posted in Children & Tweens, Healthy Eating for Toddlers & Preschoolers, Healthy Eating for Your Child/Tween, Healthy Eating for your Teen, Parenting, Teens, Toddlers & Preschoolers | Tagged drink, drink options, drinks, energy drinks, juice, Mental Health, milk, Physical Health, pop, rethink, rethink your drink, school, school health, Water | Leave a comment

Backpacks and lunches and laces – oh my!

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Paula D'Orazio

Got the urge To write an ode, A simple verse No hidden code. Came across Some stuff that’s cool, That you may like For back to school.

Posted in Children & Tweens, Healthy Eating for Your Child/Tween, Parenting, Parenting Your Child/Tween, Preparing for Kindergarten | Tagged back to school, backpack, healthy snacks and lunches, ParticipACTION, school, school health, shoelaces, special needs, teaching kids to tie shoes | Leave a comment

Food Safety: “You put WHAT in the marinade?”

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Paula D'Orazio

As you know, I tend to share things with you as they come up – just my thing. So this time, the item residing in my craw happens to be on the topic of food safety, or more specifically: safe … Continue reading →

Posted in Babies, Before Pregnancy, Children & Tweens, Feeding Your Baby in the First Year, Healthy Eating for Toddlers & Preschoolers, Healthy Eating for Your Child/Tween, Healthy Eating for your Teen, Keeping Your Baby Safe, Keeping Your Child/Tween Safe, Keeping Your Teen Safe, Keeping Your Toddler & Preschooler Safe, Parenting, Pregnancy, Prenatal Health, Teens, Toddlers & Preschoolers | Tagged FightBAC, food borne illnesses, food poisoning, food preparation, food safety, food-borne pathogens, grandparents, Physical Health, proper refrigeration, raw fish, raw meat, safe food prep, Salmonella | 2 Comments

How do YOU get your teen to eat breakfast?

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Cynthia Lindsay RN

Here we go… I’m entering yet another new parenting stage. How does it happen so quickly, one day I’m helping my kids get dressed in the mornings and the next, they are setting their own alarms. In a blink of … Continue reading →