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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
April 26, 2017 |
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Welcome, this week is your last opportunity to have a say on Australia's child care system in the 12th Annual Child Care & Workforce Participation Survey. Also, learn about healthy eating policies in early childhood settings and seven amazing things your baby can do (which you may not know about).
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Healthy eating policies in child care
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Regularly creating healthy lunchboxes is no easy task, even for the most organised of parents. Appeasing a fussy eater, finding time to prepare a range of home cooked nutritional choices, while also cooking dinner, preparing for the next day and squeezing in some family time is a daily challenge many working parents face.
However, recent news stories report that healthy lunchboxes are also a challenge for child care centres. So much so, parents have received notes in their child's lunchbox regarding the food choices provided, requesting that the child receives healthier options for kindy.
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| 7 amazing things a baby can do |
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Babies are really are amazing little things. Underneath all of that newborn squishiness and drool they are a hive of learning, and are capable of far more things than we ever give them credit for.
This week 7 amazing things your baby can do, which you may not have known about.
A study was undertaken where a group of pregnant women were given one of three stories to read out loud to their baby twice a day for the last six weeks of the pregnancy. After birth, the babies listened to recordings of the stories they had been read while sucking on a dummy. Those babies who listened to the story they had been read while in utero sucked more frequently; those that hadn't heard the story before didn't react. This change in sucking frequency suggests that they recognised the story.
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