Why Play is Beneficial for Your Child’s Health?

Play is considered an important exercise for the physical well-being and mental health of the child. Play not only provides your child enjoyment and entertainment, but playing is also essential for good health and overall development of your child. Play helps in keeping the children active, happy, and healthy. To ensure good physical as well as mental health for your child, make sure to encourage them to get engaged in different kinds of play.

Play helps in stimulating the brain development of your child and enhances early development. By reducing the emotional as well as social problems in a child, play helps in the early development of the brain. According to researchers, outside play helps in decreasing the chances of your child suffering from short-sightedness or myopia.

Play also helps in developing fine motor skills of children. It helps in strengthening the different muscles of your child. Playing helps to improve memory, learning, and intellectual abilities of the children.

Physical play like running, riding a bicycle, or skipping helps in maintaining the proper weight of your child, thereby preventing them from risks of different diseases. By maintaining a healthy weight, play aids in eliminating the chances of obesity. It also helps in developing balance, agility, coordination, as well as stamina among the children. 

Play is also an important activity for the development of self-control in your child. It offers them an opportunity to regulate and gain control over their emotions and feelings. The ability to regulate emotions is important for good mental health and resilience of the child. Attaining self-control at a young age will help your child to achieve better success in the later period of life. 

Along with good physical health, play also provides strength as well as endurance to children. Play helps in keeping the minds of children happier and healthier. For the overall growth and development of your child, playing is important. 

At Childventures Early Learning Academy, we understand the importance of play for children and offer a mix of many extracurricular activities in our blended curriculum and education programs.

Take a look at our winter break camp programs for children. For more information or to enrol your child, visit www.childventures.ca or call us at 905-332-7539.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Snacking for Children

You need to teach a healthy snacking habit that can ensure your children are getting all the nutrition needed to grow healthier and to strengthen up their immunity levels. Snacking must be used to get good nutrition rather than letting your child become addicted to mindless munching.

Following is a list of the do's and don’ts that every parent must get to know about snacking for their children.

Establish a routine:

You need to establish a snack and meal routine. Let your child have only one snack session between meals so that they do not get filled up too quickly. This way, you are able to create a three meal and snack routine that can help in getting all the nutritional benefits needed to overcome any kind of nutritional deficiency present.

Bring in whole foods:

You need to think of snacking as a mini-meal session. Bring in whole foods that are super rich in protein, healthy fats and hold onto tons of fiber content that is needed to help your child’s stomach. Avoid providing packed foods and be creative in decorating the plate to get your child to be eager and wait for the snacking sessions every day.

Compromising with the snacks and treats:

You cannot make your kid eat healthy foods all the time. Once in a while, treat them with ice cream or other food items they tend to crave. Treats like candy and ice cream shall never harm the immune levels of your kids unless they become addicted to consuming them regularly in the first place.

Finding it difficult to get your kids to eat the right way? Visit our website and learn about our early learning programs and curriculum model we have on-board to teach the right behavioral habits for your kids.

For more information and to enroll your child, visit www.childventures.ca.