{"id":3162,"date":"2019-03-21T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2021-03-01T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:46:04","slug":"changing-lives-with-food-and-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2019\/03\/21\/changing-lives-with-food-and-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing lives with food and play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parents and professionals across Australia are teaming up to help children eat healthy food and enjoy active play, with life-changing results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When children develop healthy eating and physical activity habits in their early years, they have a greater chance of realising their full potential \u2013 today and for life.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, more professionals with a shared goal of making lives better are learning how to use the Confident and Understanding Parents (CUPs) approach with parents, to support children\u2019s healthy eating and active play.<\/p>\n<p>Parents, playgroup leaders, and early childhood educators are together creating a groundswell of enduring positive impact, especially in families at risk of vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>They each have exciting stories to tell \u2013 here\u2019s a little taster of what people in our CUPs community are saying:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I&#8217;ve changed everything.&#8221;<\/em> -Parent<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Parents asked me questions about their child&#8217;s eating and I had the confidence to answer.&#8221;<\/em> -Playgroup leader<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>He&#8217;s never eaten that before.&#8221;<\/em> -Parent<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;We need these resources. They&#8217;re simple and effective for parents.&#8221;<\/em> -Early childhood nurse<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;When she&#8217;s active, she eats better and sleeps better. It becomes part of the routine.&#8221;<\/em> -Parent<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<em>I really like the way it\u2019s designed and the information. I think having a message every week helps us to focus on our families\u2019 needs. This is one of the best projects I\u2019ve worked with<\/em>.\u201d -Playgroup leader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Families tell professionals of exciting and often profound changes that they\u2019re making at home.<\/p>\n<p>Trying lots <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">more fruit and vegetables, feeling confident feeding their child, giving their child water in a cup, cutting back on screen time<\/span> to improve their child\u2019s concentration and sleep, and eating family food together are just some examples.<\/p>\n<p>Professionals have seen families bringing a wider variety of fruit for snack time, and bringing vegetables for the first time. They\u2019re also noticing parents encouraging their children to try foods and talking about healthy eating together.<\/p>\n<p>Children have loved \u2018eating a rainbow\u2019 of fruit and vegetables, ticking off a checklist when they\u2019ve at least given them a try.<\/p>\n<p>With over ten years of research and co-design shaping CUPs, we\u2019re proud to now be partnering with Save the Children to deliver the approach in eight locations across New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in using the CUPs approach in your work with, or for families? We\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please contact Judith Myers at <a href=\"mailto:judith.myers@mcri.edu.au\">judith.myers@mcri.edu.au<\/a> or visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/research-projects\/Confident_and_Understanding_Parents_\/\">website<\/a> for a closer look at this transformative approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and professionals across Australia are teaming up to help children eat healthy food and enjoy active play, with life-changing results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":3166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12000,5939],"tags":[23840,11949,23839,11958],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childrens-health-and-development","category-research-and-programs","tag-confident-in-understanding","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-healthy-eating","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}