In your view, who is personally responsible for helping children grow up healthy? Why do you feel that way? At what point should children be responsible for their own health?
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I think parents should have responsible for helping children grow up healthy. Children have too much time at home except few hours at school. Many children like to stay home and eat junk food. Also, many parents don't have time to cook healthy food for them, they just order pizza and fast food for kids. They don't like to do exercise. So parents should take more time to focus on their children healthy. On weekend, children should take sport classes as kickboxing, tennis and swimming etc. If they don't like to go out, parents buy a running machine at home. Parents should control kids' eating habits. And make sure their kids eat more vegetables for dinner, drink water more than coke. However, children should responsible for their own health.They should learn how to make their rest time, try to enjoy in some sports. They also learn know how many calories for one day is good.
ReplyDeleteI think children are also responsible for helping themselves grow up healthy. Parents always try to provide healthy and the best food for their children. But instead of eating at home, children prefer fast food.
DeleteI agree with your opinion, Many children like to eat junk food, but junk food is unhealthy. If they want to be a healthy, they can go to do exercises and eating healthy food.Parents should take care their children's healthy because health is important.
DeleteI also think the parents should be responsible for helping children grow up haalthy,because the children spend most time at home so they usually eat the food what their parents prepare for them.
DeleteI think parents are not only responsible for teaching children the healthly eating style,but also responsible for persuading their children to do exercise.Therefore,parents should spent more time on perparing meals and taking some exercise along with their kids.
DeleteI like your points here. I feel like you are saying that parents are responsible not only for keeping their kids healthy, but also with teaching them how to understand being healthy themselves. This is great because that is the only way they can grow up to be healthy adults.
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ReplyDeleteAns: In my point of view, I think both parents and their children are responsible for helping them grow up healthy. If the parents don't provide them with healthy food or take care of their health, how the children will get healthier. Children just love fast food because its cheap and tasty and when their parents don't have any objection about eating too much fast food, they can't control themselves. When their parents don't say anything about going outside for playing, they like to stay at home in front of computer or television. Children like to do whatever their parents do. So parents should eat healthy food and go outside for some exercise and that's how their children will be encouraged by them. So both parents and children should be concerned about their health. When children are smart enough to understand what is good or bad for their heath, from the time being they are responsible for their own health.
ReplyDeleteyes, i agree with your point both parents and children are responsible for their healthy. plus, health class and gym class are important to children. They learn how to make them healthier.
DeleteThis is a great point, Md. Parents not only have to teach their children how to behave but also give them a good example to follow.
DeleteI think parents should be responsible for helping children grow up healthy.In my opinion, parents can prepare healthy food for their children. Children usually eat what food that their parents prepare for them.Some children cause their parents work and busy,then just go outside to buy some fast food. It is unhealthy for them. Parents eating habits can effect their children because parents should eating healthy food that children can grow up healthy.Parents can training children healthy eating habits. Parents can bring their children go to do some exercises. It can makes them become more healthy. Therefore, parents should be responsible for helping children grow up healthy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the point that children eat depending on what their parents give them. And that comes from the kind of parents that they are.
DeleteI agree with your opinion because we have the same idea about who is personally responsible for helping children grow up healthy. Parents can make a big effect of the eating habit for their children.
DeleteI agree! with your point that parents can give their children the habit of eating healthy.
DeleteI agree with you parents are the once who control what their kids eat and what they don't
DeleteSome parents have to work all the time and can't control their children's eating habits very easily. What advice would you have for them?
DeleteFor me, the parents are responsible for helping the children grow up healthy. I feel this way because they are their parents, they are suppose to keep their children in a healthy shape. They wouldn't want them to have an unhealthy life because if that happens than his life won't be the same as other people which life more healthier. If he/she grows up and becomes fat ,which might happen if you don't take care of your self, but they are kids they don't know that, so the parents are responsible in that case. Than later in the future if he/she is fat, they won't be able to do things like other people do. Children should be responsible for their own health when they realize what they are eating is not good for them, when they have a sense of what a healthier body is or when they know that things make u fat, and changes you, that's when they should start be responsible for their own health.
ReplyDeleteI love comment say that they are their parents, they suppose to keep their children in healthy shape.
DeleteI like that you mentioned how kids won't be able to do what other people can do if they gain too much weight. Sometimes I think it is hard for parents to tell their children "no," but I think it would be worse to watch them sit out and not be able to participate.
DeleteParents should be responsible for helping their children grow up healthy. The children are under learning process. They did not know the types of food that are good for their health. parents need to be guiding their children in everyday consumption.so that they will not look unhealthy or getting fat . Parents are elderly people. They came to this world before their children. Moreover, they had been preparing and eating differents types of food before the existing of their children. I believed parent should be responsible for up bring their healthy children. Children should be responsible for their health being.when they reach age of 18 years because they are already learn a lot of about food intake. They learn from their parents and school. They combine this two experience together and used it for their healthy way of life.
ReplyDelete18 is a good age because that is generally when kids move out of their homes. at some point, we have to let them make their own decisions, even if they might make the wrong ones.
DeleteIn my view, I think parents are responsible for helping children grow up healthy. Because when children are little baby, their parents always take care of them until they become an adult. In this process, parents offer food to them. It decides what the children will eat when they are growing. If their parents are very busy, and do not have time to cook. They only can give money to their children. The children will go to buy fast food which contains more calories and fat. It’s one of the most important common reasons why children become obesity. In contrast, if their parents eat very health food, their children won’t be obese. Children should be responsible for their own health when they are growing up. They need to take care themselves. If they always eat unhealthy food and become obesity or get some diseases, it will affect their future and whole life. They need to be responsible for what they eat.
ReplyDelete"What children eat when they are growing" is such an important topic, Ling, so I'm glad you mentioned it. i have heard of studies which prove that what children eat while they are growing can affect their development later in life, so it is very important to teach and enforce healthy eating habits during this time.
DeleteI think parents should be responsible for helping children grow up healthy because the parents eating habits affect their children directly.Most children usually eat the food what their parents prepare for them at home. The author stated in the article" You cannot tell a child he is allowed only one soda a week if you keep two-litter bottles of coke in the refrigerater",children usually follow their parents eating habits, so parents should be responsible for developing healthy eating habits in children such as don't get the fast food or soda usually and manage the daily diets.Also,parents can limit how much time their children spend sitting in front of the television, it's easier to get obesity just sit at home after eating.At this point, children also be responsible for themselves,they can change their lifestyles like doing more exercises in the free time and eating more vegetables with the help of their parents.
ReplyDeletei agree with you that parents habit will affect their children directly.
DeleteGood point, Jianyi. Children definitely want to copy their parents in many things, and eating is definitely one of them!
DeleteI think parents should be responsible for helping children grow up to healthy because most of the time the children stay with their parents. So their behavior or their habit will directly affect their children. Since the children was too young that they dont have ability to take care of themselves，their parenst have pay attention to everything of them，no one understand them more than their parents. but the children had to be resposible for themselves in some positions too. Some of the kids now are indulge in the electronic games, and lack of exercise， therefore cause them myopia，and their immunity have been decrease，too. That's why they have to be reponsible for their own healthy, try to do some exrcise or attend some group, instead of stay at home and play games the whole day.
ReplyDeleteThese are good points. At what age should parents let their kids try and take care of themselves, though?
DeleteIn my view, parents are responsible for helping children grow up healthy. I feel that way because, parents are like mentor for their kids, they are the one that children are look up to. It is parents responsibility to know what kind of grocery they purchase and what they put on the table for their children. As it said in the article, "parents are busy, fast food is more convenient and cheaper" Parents should manage their time when it comes to the health of their children in order to prevent obesity, furthermore serious health problem. Also, parents must encourage their children to do more outdoors activities, that will help them mentally and physically. Children should be responsible for their own health at a point that they can make decision for themselves and adult enough to leave their parents house and be responsible for their own family.
ReplyDeleteI am totally agree with your idea because parents have to be responsible about what kind of diet they give to their child is healhy.
DeleteThese are all really good points, Lissa. What about parents who work two jobs or single moms and dads, though. They often can't be around or don't have time to monitor their child's every meal.
Deleteparents should have the responsible to help children grow up healthy. in most of times, parents will take care their children. their life style will directly affect their children. what parents eat, they follow. so their heathy is presents parents' because parents are the beginning teacher of children. the story state that parents could control their childrens' diet. for example. they will drink too much soda, coke ect.which will cause children overweight. because of children don't konw what food is healthy for their body. so the parents have to be responsible for their childrens' healthy
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Youda, when you say that children don't know what is healthy for their body. How can they unless someone teaches them? I agree with you that that is the job of their parents.
DeleteIn my view, I think parents are responsible for helping children grow up healthy. Most of the children are not sensible to care about health instead of tasty. Parents usually have the control of their children' meal, therefore it is important for parents to do the right things to help children to establish a healthy eating style. And parents also are the first teacher of their children; their every the actions and thoughts may have an effect on their kids. In order to help their children to have a healthy life, parents should make themselves as a role model first. At the same time, Children are responsible for their health too. Parents and teachers can't not be around kids all the time, children are going to live a life by themselves in the future. If they didn't care their health now, they would have a hard time with their health later. So children should learn about the ways to take care their health. Eat less junk food, eat some or more healthy food, and take some exercise.
ReplyDeletei agree with your view point
DeleteIt takes a while for a taste buds to develop, and you bring up a good point that often healthy food does not taste as good to children as unhealthy food. If it were up to them, they'd live off potato chips and Skittles! But parents have to force them to develop a taste for what is good for more than just their taste buds.
Deletemy point is when children are young parents have most responsibility to help children grow up healthy. because they are so young and do not know enough knowledge about healthy life . but then they learned it in the school they may have most responsibility of their own healthy. at this team they all know what kind of food is good for them and bad.
ReplyDeleteSo at what point should the kids get to make decisions for themselves in regard to their diet?
DeleteThe parents and the junk food directors should personally responsible for children grow up healthy . Because . junk food is the most common reason that make more then 40% children obese in the US , and parents should take time and stop loving blind to their children . Nevertheless, children also have responsible to their own health , "because people can not help you if you do not care about yourself." it is a line come from my favorite movie "When happiness come to you"
ReplyDeleteI think you might be the only one who mentioned that perhaps the people who create unhealthy food are responsible for this epidemic of unhealthy people we have. This goes along well with next week's discussion on soda taxes!
Deleteparents are the once responsible for their kids healthy, they control what their children eat and what they don't. I feel this way because I see every day how parents help their children to get used to junk food, not eating vegetables and healthy food. then, when they grow up is going to be to late to get used to make healthy choices and actions in order to have a healthy life. there is an age when an person as an adult have to take conscience and responsibility for what he/she is doing and to think about how it is going to affect them in the future.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Melanie. Parents have something kids don't, which is the ability to understand what will happen in the future. Most parents know that an obsession with unhealthy food will lead to pain down the road for their child, so they need to do what they can to help them avoid that situation.
DeleteAt first, it is the parents responsibility to keep watch and care for their children's health as they are young. Since they are young, they don't have much knowledge and/or care for themselves yet. Later, it is the children responsibility to learn and know how to take care of themselves because the parent really don't have to keep taking care of you over and over again. Children should be at the ages between 14 and up to start learning to take care of their health.
ReplyDelete14 is a good age, Justin. It's when kids are starting to become more independent and stretch their boundaries at home, so maybe letting them start to make food decisions at this age will help them practice getting ti right while their parents are there to guide them while still giving them the feeling that they are being independent.
DeleteParents are the one should put most responsibility to keep their children healthy and avoid them from obesity and practice outdoor exercise as they are kid, they need keep up the habits. They need to be told to not eat McDonald's everyday, maybe once or twice a week and because they are young, they are easily to be reminded, to not to do so. In school, teachers also have to remind them not to eat what kind of food too keep them healthy and I believe school meal menu is all set for the children, the food menu are prepared and the nutrition are evenly distributed by the professional nutritionists ,especially for the children. At no point that children should be take care of their own healthiness if they were not being told/taught. When the time they are sick, then the parent can use some excuse to remind them not to eat and do the exercise, this way reminds them the key to the heath. So that will even do more to reminds them. For the big kids, they will take care of themselves if they have been told at early ages.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Raymond. Maybe there is no set age where children can take care of themselves automatically, but parents who teach their kids good habits will be able to let them make their own decisions earlier in life, possibly.
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