Parent Resources
Free Parent Nutrition Classes by UC Cooperative Extension
Invite a bilingual parent educator to your site to deliver a serires of engaging and effective lessons on nutrition, physical activity, and healthy lifestyles; how to plan and prepare tasty, low-cost, safe and nutritious family meals and snacks; and offer recipes and food demonstrations.
Classes are free to parents at sites with 50% or more free/reduced meal student populations.
Contact Mary Maser to schedule your classes today! Phone: (760) 752-4721 Email: [email protected]
Classes are free to parents at sites with 50% or more free/reduced meal student populations.
Contact Mary Maser to schedule your classes today! Phone: (760) 752-4721 Email: [email protected]
Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let's Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every family has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping kids become more physically active.
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40 Tips for an Active Family - This tip sheet from the Action For Healthy Kids offers easy ways to get your family moving and having fun together!
The Do's & Don't to Get Your Child to Eat Fruits & Vegetables - Easy tips to help estabish healthy eating habits.
Phrases that Help and Hinder mini-poster
As the caregivre, you play the biggest role in your child's eating behavior. What you say has an impact on developing healthy eating habits. This mini-poster from ChooseMyPlate.gov helps negative phrases change into positive, helpful ones!
Partner in Breakfast - This handout offers great breakfast ideas for the whole family.
Every Minute Counts - This handout describes the importance of daily physical activity. In English & Spanish.
Healthy Fundraising Activities - Action for Healthy Kids offers many resources and tools to support healthy kids.
Other Food Sales - SNACKULATOR - This online calculator allows you to input information from the Nutrition Facts label and ifnd out in a few seconds if the food meets the nutrient standards.