From SNEBThe Importance of Face-to-Face Communication in the Digital World
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Building Relationships, Connections and Community
The very word companion is derived from the Latin com-, meaning “with” and panis, meaning “bread.”2 Your companion is the person with whom you break your bread. Building an expectation of shared meals into everyday experiences provides us with social interaction. In this issue, Jarpe-Ratner et al3 found that children participating in cooking classes were more likely to help cook and engage in conversations about health at home. Utter and Denny4 also found that when families cooked and ate at
Modeling Behavior
Children and adults alike absorb the world around them; we easily adapt cultural norms, extending to food. In a previous issue, participants that had hands-on learning experiences increased their understanding of healthy eating through visual modeling. Social interactions in the classroom with other participants also encouraged healthy behavior changes.5 Additionally, teachers who improved their own health behaviors were able to see a positive correlation with children's behavior in their
Increase Knowledge About Where and How Our Food is Grown
It is easy for many children to believe that food simply comes from a supermarket. From our personal experiences, children are sometimes resistant to the notion that food comes from plants and soil. When educating otherwise, video or virtual tools can only go so far; there is no replacement for planting a seed in soil and watching it grow or visiting a farm and seeing acres of tomatoes grown all in a row. In fact, children with greater exposure to gardening ate more and had a higher preference
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