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Healthy Celebrations at BestStart Parkside
Our centre is actively involved and striving to get a Gold Award Certificate from Healthy Heart Foundation and we are educating children and parents (consultation and working in partnerships for the best outcomes for our young children) on making healthy choices to promote well-being and health of our children.
At BestStart Parkside, birthday celebrations are a crucial point of discussion. Most of the time we have two to three cakes in a week. As we know cake has a high sugar content, sugar hypes up the children and most of the time children don't know how to control sudden boosts in energy from just one little piece of cake. We are in the process of writing up our center-specific birthday celebration policy, where parents will be encouraged to bring cakes only when a child turns 2 or 5 years old. Otherwise, healthy finger food, fruit platters, or cheese boards will be equally enjoyed.
This is one of the great examples, where the parent of the child took our suggestion on board and we were able to create and make this wonderful fruit cake platter with the birthday child happily and proudly involved. The child was counting and naming the fruits. Other children also joined in and we had a lovely time making fruit kebabs with the children.