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Aqiva Food Talk: Fight The Diet Shift

In the recent event “Food Talk” Aqiva helped us moms know more about “Diet Shift” and offer us empowering solutions to conquer this phase. Present during the event was celebrity mom and TV host Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski who shared with us her own experience with Diet Shift, “I have three boys, and my youngest, Renzo, is four years old. I noticed that Renzo is starting to prefer unhealthy food staples such as French fries and ice cream. I know people expect me to know how to teach Renzo to eat healthy because I’ve already experienced this with my other two boys. But the truth is, it’s not easy. It’s always a different challenge with each kid when it comes to mealtimes.”

Dr. Bernadette Benitez, a Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Specialist who currently serves as the Medical Director of Wyeth Nutrition Philippines, and a consultant the Asian Hospital, Medical Center in Alabang, and Makati Medical Center shared with us that Diet SDhift is real and told the usual age when it occurs.

“It is normal for a child to go through a Diet Shift, as experimenting with new food, and developing tastes for new food, are all part of growing up. The problem is when the child gets exposed to more types of unhealthy food, and would start to prefer these over other food that are ideal for his age. This usually heightens at age 4, when he starts tasting sugary snacks from classmates, and begins craving for fried and crunchy food from the malls, etc. This is when parents should start monitoring their child’s intake of unhealthy food, and continue teaching them to eat healthy.” explained Dr. Benitez.

I can very well relate to what Dr Benitez said. My two older boy experienced this phase and my 3rd son just got out of this phase. My two older boys conquered diet shift easily but with my third son, it took a while and a lot of convincing. He now eats better and loves his veggies and fruits.

Ms. Luz Callanta, Nutrition Expert and Lecturer, discussed what are the nutrients that was commonly “lost” during this shift and the importance of this nutrients:

“Proper nutrition is needed, especially during the child’s growth and development years. This is when he needs most of the vitamins and nutrients, at the right levels. Unfortunately, this is the same time that the threat of the Diet Shift strikes, and gaps in nutrition may occur. It is essential at this stage to supplement at-risk nutrients in the child’s diet and nutrition,” says Ms. Callanta.

The event was not just about diet shift and nutrients, Celebrity Chef Jackie Laudico of Bistro Filipino taught us a few ideas on how to prepare food.. FUN ideas! great food presentation. “The best way to make children try healthy dishes is to make them interested in it. The food’s visual appeal helps in getting their attention, and eventually they would be willing to taste the healthy snack.” shared Chef Laudico.

Of course, when giving child friendly meals to your kid, always partner it with Aqiva. It is formulated with A.Q.I (Adequate, Quality and Important) Nutrients, AQIVA is packed with 40 ingredients including 25 essential nutrients, scientifically designed to support the child’s nutrition as parents teach them healthy eating habits, especially during the Diet Shift phase.

“Aqiva proudly takes on the advocacy of raising healthy children through healthy eating habits and proper nutrition. We want to help moms instill the importance and value of healthy eating in their children, and at the same time, we want children to enjoy their healthy meals–to actually like what they eat,” said AQIVA Senior Product Manager Carlo de la Paz.

For more information on Aqiva, parents may call the Wyeth Careline at 81-WYETH (81-99384) for Metro Manila,
and 1-800-10-884-2222 (toll-free) for provinces. Parents may also log on to www.facebook.com/AqivaPH

The Princess and Her Orange Hat!

Our Run United 1 experience was a pleasant one.. well except for the almost 30 minutes 500m dash.. which was more like a patience test for me hahahhaa

The princess loved her orange hat but she’s very conscious with it.. and she’d throw tantrums every time the hat is misplaced on her head.. we had 10 or more stops during the dash trying to fix her hat…such a moody girl!

When we got home, her mood changed (after sleeping for 6 hours! so that’s where the tantrums came from.. lack of sleep hehe).. she posed for the camera wearing the hat in different ways.. isn’t she adorable?

Teaching Kids To Write Using Dotted (and lined ) Font

And the little boy will be in pre school this coming school year… he knows how to count from 1-100 (which he learned in a day! the math genes baby, his genes! haha) he knows some of the alphabet.. but he doesn’t know how to read and write yet.. and he’ll be in prep (kinder 2) in June. Teaching him is easy but i’s the preparing the lesson plan that’s taking most of my time.

So we’re taking it letter by letter, incorporating phonics and writing on it. We’re starting with letters L, T, I and V. Yes, not from A, B, C.. why? well, I learned from my first born’s tutor that it is better to teach it from letters that have straight lines, starting from the easiest which is letter L. Phonics are included as pictures/ images starting with each letters are introduced. Looking for images we can use was time consuming. You see, I can’t just use any images/ pictures that starts with the letter we are working.. it has to be phonics friendly.. like we can’t use ice cream for letter I.. since we are introducing the short i sound at first, it can be confusing seeing an ice cream that starts with a long i sound. Same goes with most of the letters, like A for Apple..the ending sound will confuse the kid.. so as much as possible, I only images/pictures that have a standard (or normal) starting, ending and middle sound. More on how to teach your kids to read when Chico starts reading.

Here’s a sample of our work sheet:

Disclaimer: Images used in the worksheets are not mine.

The dotted and lined fonts, which is the highlight of this post is from Kimberly Geswein. You can download the font HERE.

The KG Primary Dots comes in 3:

This is a very helpful font in teaching your kids how to write. It is dotted and lined, just how I want it to be. Before I discovered this font, I was using a paper pad image then writing a letter on it using GIMP.. and it was time consuming! Thank goodness there’s Google and thank goodness there’s Kimberly (which I would like to call the Goddess of Fonts). I hope in time she would develop a dotted font for cursive hand writing.

Upon discovering KG’s works, I found out that she is also the artist behind some of my favorite fonts.. Love yah like a sister and a lot more.. You can find her works on her website and you can even download all her fonts from hthe site. And you can see a few of her works on her FB page.