Sentences with phrase «unhealthy example for your child»

Setting an unhealthy example for your child now — and allowing him to indulge in excessive screen time — could have lifelong consequences.

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The importance of early life feeding and behaviour has prompted priority calls for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and an immediate end to the marketing of unhealthy foods to all children, for example in the EU Childhood Obesity Action Plan 2014 - 2020 9 and most recently the Second International Conference on Nutrition 10 in Rome.

If your child does something dangerous, unhealthy, or destructive — walking with pens, eating crayons, or throwing stones, for example — gently instruct him or her about the proper use of the object: «Chairs are for sitting, not standing» or «You can bang the spoon on the pot, but it's not for hitting other things or people.»

Examples include: tighter supervision and international regulation of the food supply; an international code of food marketing to protect children's health; regulating food nutritional quality in schools along with programmes to encourage healthy food preferences; taxes on unhealthy products such as sweetened drinks and subsidies on healthier foods for low - income families such as vouchers for fruit and vegetable boxes; and mandatory food labelling as an incentive for industry to produce more nutritional products.

For example, the British zoologist Richard Dawkins has written that: «Gullibility of the kind exploited by astrologers, evangelists, and other charlatans may be normal and healthy in a child, but it is unhealthy and reprehensive in an adult» (Skeptical Enquirer, vol 19, no 1, p35).

23,020) has shown that unhealthy maternal and early postnatal dietary patterns (for example, processed and refined foods, high - sugar beverages, high - sodium snacks) elevate the risk of behavioral and emotional problems in children [13].

For example, in a survey of parents who are targets of alienation, Baker and Darnell4 found that targeted parents reported that alienators interfered with parenting time (e.g., scheduled appointments or frequently called during the other parent's parenting time), interfered with contact with the children (e.g., intercepted phone messages or email), interfered with symbolic contact like gift giving (e.g., threw away gifts or sent them back), did not inform them about important information (e.g., school activities, doctor appointments), threatened to take children away from the them, and formed unhealthy alliances with the children such as having had their children spy and report back information to the alienating parent, or sending cell phones with children to call the alienating parent from the target parent's home.