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BALANCED NUTRITION FOR HEALTHY BABIES
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According to nutrition expert Iris Bernardo, nutrition plays an important role in achieving a well-rounded lifestyle. At the crucial stages of child hood, nutrition is key in the overall development and well-being of a child. "If you feed children right, they will develop faster and grow right," says Bernardo. Especially at the stage when they start becoming inquisitive and full of wonder about their surroundings, they need helpful sources of nutrients and energy.
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With a healthy body that's strong and ready for learning, children are like sponges, absorbing new lessons and values that parents teach them. Bernardo once again stresses the role of parents in shaping a child's values system. Kids take their cue from their parents' lifestyle and see them as their primary role models. "Moms and dads should show children the proper way to eat and live. If you want children to eat vegetables, they should see you eat vegetables," Bernardo illustrates.
In the same way that children learn proper nutrition from their parents, so too do they learn about proper conduct from the very people who raised them. Bonakid recognizes the urgency and importance that parents attach to values formation, and espouses the four values that every Filipino child should have: Galang Pagmamahal sa Diyos, Tiyaga at Tiwala sa Sarili.
Galang or respect delves on the Filipino's high regard and respect for their elders which is demon strated through traditional practices of pagmamano and saying "po" and "opo." Being a primarily Catholic countiy Filipinos are inculcated since childhood to be prayerful, God-fearing or may "Pagmamahal sa Diyos", the second value espoused by Bonakid. The value of "tiyaga" or perseverance teaches kids to work for their goals in life, and to learn from their mistakes, while Tiwala sa Sarili puts prime importance on confidence and belief in one's abilities.
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