For You, Grandparents |
As grandparents, you play a vital role in raising your grandchildren. Together with their parents, you
can teach your grandkids healthy habits and guide them as they grow into successful and happy adults.
You can play as important a role in your grandkids’ lives as their parents do, and together you can make your grandchildren happier, healthier and more successful! |
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Overweight |
| Obesity is an epidemic in this country and can have serious effects on children. Diseases like Type II Diabetes and heart disease, diseases we used to see only in adults, are now occurring in children and adolescents as a result of obesity. Obesity can also cause joint problems, hormone imbalances (including early puberty for girls) and overall poorer health in adulthood. To help prevent obesity, help your grandkids avoid drinking fruit juice and sugary soft drinks, eat fewer fatty foods and less candy and eat more vegetables and lean meats. |
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Nutrition-Calcium |
| Proper nutrition is one way you can help kids grow up healthy and strong. Children need calcium to grow. As children grow, the calcium they get from milk, yogurt, cheese and other calcium rich-foods is stored in their bones, making them stronger. If kids get enough calcium when they’re young, they can delay the risk of falls and fractures when they get old by decades! You can help your grandkids build strong bones by making sure they get enough calcium by drinking milk, eating yogurt and low-fat cheese, and other calcium rich-foods. |
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Limiting TV Time |
Kids need structure and proper brain stimulation to help their minds grow and develop. As children grow, connections between brain cells are forming and reorganizing. Too much TV, especially for younger kids, interferes with this process and can lead to a shorter attention span and trouble concentrating in school. If you work with Mom & Dad to limit your grandchildren’s exposure to TV, you are helping them become better students and more successful adults. |
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Reading |
Reading to your grandchildren is one of the best things you can do for them. Even at very young ages, if you read books to your grandkids, when they get to school they will read and write better and have longer attention spans, helping them perform better in school, get into a good college and have satisfying, well-paying jobs when they grow up. Together with Mom & Dad, try to make sure your grandkids read at least three storybooks every day to help their brains develop and grow. |
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Play Together |
You can play as important a role in your grandkids’ lives as their parents do, and together you can make your grandchildren happier, healthier and more successful! |
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Dear parents and grandparents
We are born in families with histories of being too heavy (overweight), having high sugar levels (diabetes), or having heart and vessel problems etc.
We don’t want to be too heavy when we grow up.
The extra fat can clog our vessels, heart, and brain.
So we can get high blood pressure when we grow up.
Our heart vessels will be clogged, and they will scream from pain “ouch!”
Our brain vessels will be clogged, and we will have floppy bodies, “ouch!”
We don’t want our sugar levels to be too high when we grow up.
The extra sugar can hurt our eyes, kidneys, toes, and legs etc.
So our eyes will lose their shine, and we will be blind.
Our kidneys will lose their function, and we have to live on a machine to get rid of our waste.
Our toes and legs will die and turn black, and doctors will have to cut them off, “ouch!”
We don’t want to be too heavy and have too much sugar.
We don’t want the extra fat and sugar clogging the vessels of our hearts, brains, eyes, kidneys, toes, and legs.
We don’t want to have too many tests and take too many medications when we are growing up.
We want to be healthy and enjoy our entire life.
We want to be happy and be satisfied our entire life.
Please don’t let us eat too much,
Please don’t let us eat too many snacks,
Please don’t give us too many candies,
Please don’t buy us too many sweet drinks,
Please don’t let us watch too much TV and eat too much junk food.
Please introduce healthy foods, low fat, low sugar, and high fiber foods to us,
Please help us eat less rice and bread,
Please cook foods that are healthy for us,
Please help us build up healthy eating habits,
Please play actively with us indoors and outdoors,
Let us all build and maintain healthy and active life styles.
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Computers |
Small amounts of time spent with a computer, especially using educational programs, can help kids develop good hand-eye coordination. However, too many video games can distract from homework. In younger kids, video games can over-stimulate their brains like television can. |
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