Promoting children’s wellness
Introduction
Promoting children’s wellness involves the engagement of efforts that ensure a child has a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Therefore, when the child experiences a state of well-being, there is a timely achievement of the milestone due to optimum development, enhancing learning ability. If a child is exposed to factors that negatively affect well-being, there is a delay in development, which delays the achievement of the child’s milestones. To promote children’s wellness, the subsequent efforts must be put into practice, promoting nutrition aspects among children, promoting health safety, promoting health practices, and ensuring comprehensive planning of children’s curriculums.
Reflection.
The nutrition area is the approach I will struggle with implementing based on every aspect of it. The implementation part of nutrition comprises of diverse approaches that must be combined for intervention to be effective. The efforts encompass of; conducting nutrition lessons, ensuring the children make good nutrition choices, demonstration of what a balanced diet consists of, ensuring the children have scheduled and enough time to take their meals, involving the parents to explain some of the aspects that the child can’t understand, and ensuring children have enough physical exercise. Therefore, ensuring that all the nutrition efforts are met will indicate that child development is optimum, promoting learning.
Some of the reasons it is a challenge to implement a nutrition approach include; fluctuations in family eating habits, increased sedentary life, genetic composition, and reduced physical activities. Fluctuations in family eating behaviors involve the eating patterns within the family, which are beyond my control. Some of these habits include excessive eating, which triggers bulimia nervosa disorder, inadequate eating, triggers anorexia nervosa disorder, and eating a certain type of food frequently, which have high impacts on nutrition. Increased sedentary life involves engaging in activities that don’t require many efforts, such as where a child is not allowed to walk. Instead, a drive is always provided even for a shorter distance. Therefore, sedentary life promotes inactivity, which is against the nutrition approach, and the teacher cannot control it without the parent’s influence.
The genetic composition consists of the genetic coding within the child. Since nutrition provides an environment for coded gene manifestation in some families, there are obesity genes beyond the teacher’s control. Since when the child doesn’t adhere to the teacher’s advice, such as having ample sleep and making the right diet choices, the child will suffer from obesity. When the child suffers from the stress that arises from the domestic environment, obesity will manifest, and the teacher has little control over stress and sleeps factors. Reduced physical activities imply that the child has no access to physical activities outside the school environment, which is a challenge since playing at school cannot be considered effective physical exercise. Therefore, in as much the teacher cares for the child, physical activities are not feasible to control the same at home because most of the children spend much of their time indoors. When children spend much of their time indoors, it is a clear indicator that there is no effective physical activity.
Conclusion
It is evident that to promote children’s wellness, and there must be a collaboration between the teachers and the parents to ensure the child has a good state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Therefore, there is a need to emphasize the partnership between both parties to ensure the teacher’s mandates end. It is the start of the parent’s mandate towards promoting effort consistency. To promote children’s wellness, the subsequent efforts must be put into practice, promoting nutrition aspects among children, promoting health safety, promoting health practices, and ensuring comprehensive planning of children’s curriculums.