Parent Provides. Child Decides.
Feeding your baby is an opportunity to bond and get to know each other. This short video explains two approaches that support healthy feeding with your baby.
Supporting Healthy Eating at Home
Find out how family mealtime can be an important opportunity to support child development.
Family Mealtime
Find out how family mealtime can be an important opportunity to support child development.
Building Healthy Mealtime Habits
Mealtime isn’t all about eating—it’s also a time for families to build healthy habits. Together.
Responsive Feeding Webinars
Three short webinars on responsive feeding and how home visitors can help families make the most of mealtimes.
Healthy Eating: Health Tips for Families
In this fact sheet, find easy tips families may use to help their children learn about nutrition and healthy eating behaviors starting in infancy.
Nutrition
Good nutrition is an important part of a wellness lifestyle to stay healthy, active, and strong. Health managers and program staff can explore resources to support healthy eating habits and find nutrition assistance information to share with families.
Growing Healthy: A Guide for Head Start Health Managers
This guide provides suggestions for building healthy, active lives for everyone. Staff can share this information with parents as a reminder to make healthy choices every day.
How Lifestyle Affects Breast Milk: Smoking, Drugs, and Alcohol
A woman’s lifestyle may affect her breast milk, and have an impact on the baby. During breastfeeding, it is important for a woman not to consume alcohol, smoke, or take drugs. These substances are known to pass through the breast milk. This information can help mothers to understand better about the consequences of smoking, using drugs, and drinking alcohol during pregnancy.
Encourage Healthy Eating Habits
Healthy eating is essential to a child's nutrition and well-being. Children who are overweight are at risk for chronic health problems. The Weight-control Information Network (WIN), a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), offers guidance to parents and caregivers on how to encourage healthy eating habits in children.