CHC30113: Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care - Promote Healthy Food and Drinks - Nursing Assignment Help

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Case Study 1

You are working in an early childhood education and care service that asks families to provide their children’s snacks, meals and drinks for consumption throughout the day. A parent has begun sending juice in their child’s drink bottle, instead of following the service’s Food and Nutrition Policy, which states that children should only drink water when in care at the service. After discussing this with the parent, the parent begins to send colourless cordial in their child’s drink bottle. Complete the following:
a) Which policies, typically available in an early education and care service, is this parent breaching? For example; Food and Nutrition Policy. Identify one more policy.

b) Identify two (2) documents/information resources that you could direct the parent to in order to educate them about the dangers of giving their child unhealthy drinks.

c) Briefly outline three (3) possible health implications for this child if they are only drinking sugary fluids.

Case Study 2

You are working in an early childhood education and care service that asks families to provide their children’s snacks and meals. You have noticed that one of the families who access the service continually pack their child’s lunchbox with highly processed, brown coloured, carbohydrate rich foods, such as white bread, sweet biscuits, Nutri-Grain breakfast cereal and rice crackers. The lunch box does not feature a variety of foods, such as those from other food groups.

Complete the following:
a) Outline three (3) ways to communicate to the parents about the importance of including a variety of food types in their child’s lunch.

b) Describe three (3) child appropriate learning experiences you could implement with young children to promote healthy eating.

Case Study 3

It is coming up to April and the early childhood education and care service where you work traditionally holds an Easter egg hunt within the service’s grounds. The children eagerly look forward to this experience each year, and make Easter egg baskets to collect their eggs in. This year a parent, in the 3-5s room has requested that their child not participate in the egg hunt as they do not allow their child to eat chocolate. The parent also makes comment that they feel this experience contradicts the service’s practices in relation to promoting healthy eating amongst the children and their families. Complete the following:
a) How would you accommodate this parent’s request, while at the same time respecting the wishes of the other families who attend the service? Remember, it is important not to make any child feel excluded.