Ensuring kids get nutritious and balanced meals can feel overwhelming. Helping kids eat a variety of foods can not only help improve their physical health and mental well-being but helping kids understand nutrition basics can improve long-term health outcomes. While childhood obesity is multifactorial, having a well-balanced diet can decrease risk of childhood obesity for your child (Almonacid-Fierro & González-Almonacid, 2022). Encouraging kids to eat a variety of food groups and foods of different colors helps to ensure meals and snacks are nutrient dense to ensure proper nutrition (Blumfield et al., 2022).

Sleep is a basic human need. All humans require sleep to maintain levels of cognition, mood stability, memory and capacity for learning (Chehri et al., 2022). When your little one struggles with sleep, it can be a nightmare. Getting ready for sleep time can be daunting and difficult with littles ones. With some small efforts, establishing a sleep routine and positive sleep hygiene habits can help improve sleep for the whole family.