HEY MOM, WHAT'S FOR DINNER?.

Reference:

Wood, M. (2010). HEY MOM, WHAT'S FOR DINNER?.
Agricultural Research, 58(3), 6. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier
database.

Summary:

            In this article, Hughes claims that feeding styles of 3-5 years old kids have the
greatest effect on their obesity. Also, she indicates that if those styles
become well known to the researcher, they would be able to help parents and
kids to stop obesity. She examined to groups of feeding styles. First group was
the permissive one which has two styles, indulgent and uninvolved. The second
group was having more structure with two styles, authoritarian and
authoritative. Hughes and her colleagues found that the kids whose parents'
feeding styles were either indulgent or uninvolved ate the least fruit. Whereas
for those kids who are their parents' feeding styles were authoritarian and authoritative
ate 100 percent fruit juice vegetables. Finally, the researchers found that the
least eaten foods were those which help to lose weight.

Response:

            I believe that parents must be educated to know what
is best for their kids. Also, I agree with Hughes that feeding styles having
the greatest influence on kids obesity and their behaviors and habits of
eating. On the other hand, kids cannot be forced to eat something they do not
want, so we have to find ways to make them love the healthy foods. In this way,
we do not have to watch them all the time when eating healthy foods becomes
their habits of eating. Finally, kids always listen to their teachers in school
more than their parents at home, so why do not the schools adopt educational
programs about the healthy foods for kids and educate them with their parents
from time to time?