By promoting positive attitudes, rather than fostering negative associations with food and eating, parents and caregivers can enhance the child's enjoyment of food and promote a lifetime of healthy eating. Children enjoy being active. Preschoolers enjoy and need physical activity every day. They rely on parents and caregivers to provide opportunities for physical activities which are fun and easy to participate in, such as bicycling, walking, or wheeling, dancing, games of ball or tag in the summer and sledding or building a snowman in the winter. Playing actively with their friends and family should be encouraged.
Children enjoy feeling good about themselves.
Like adults, children come in different shapes and sizes. Positive attitudes about body image and one's self are important. Adults can help build self-esteem by providing affection and attention. Children look to adults as models. If parents and caregivers feel good about themselves, children are more likely to as well.