Empowering Children

Executive Function

Can Our Children Become Smarter by Eating Healthier?

Katherine Eskovitz on June 25, 2014

As parents, we need to help our children become healthy eaters, starting at a young age. But in order to do that, we’ve got to make them an active part of the process. Empowering children to develop a healthy eating plan not only helps children become healthy eaters beyond the childhood years, but it strengthens high-level cognitive skills as they are developing.

As parents, we need to help our children become healthy eaters, starting at a young age. But in order to do that, we’ve got to make them an active part of the process. Empowering children to develop a healthy eating plan not only helps children become healthy eaters beyond the childhood years, but it strengthens high-level cognitive skills as they are developing.

We can't control all of the good and bad things that will happen to our children, but we can give them the tools they need to make their experiences, whether joyous or painful, opportunities for growth.