Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.
Interpretation
Children learn by observing adults and their choices, especially regarding health and nutrition.
This quote highlights the importance of setting a positive example for children, particularly in relation to food choices. When adults prioritize fresh, home-cooked meals over convenience options like fast food, children recognize the value of nutrition and the love and care that goes into preparing healthy meals. This observation shapes their attitudes toward food and health, underscoring the influence of adult behavior on a child's development and choices.
In practice
A parent can use this quote during a cooking class to emphasize the importance of teaching children how to prepare healthy meals.
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The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
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To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.
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