Self Reflection
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| Question | Answer |
| WHAT? Reflect on what happened. Make initial observations. | Over the past couple of months, I have been communicating with families in regard to the types of foods they send into care for their children; in particular fruit/food pouches - I have had families sending in fruit pouches aged for 4 month old for their 2 & half year old child. I have been trying to source information and resources to support my understandings that these types of food pouches have less nutrition than a fresh piece of fruit. |
| SO WHAT? Ask deeper questions to better understand what happened. | "Phasing" these pouch foods out of my service has been a process, at first I had conversations with families and the pushes were still sent in with the lunch boxes. I would offer other healthy snacks from my kitchen and send the pouches home. The fruit/food pouches would return in the bag the following day,....... I have then had deeper conversations with parents, requesting they don't send the fruit/food pouches in their child's lunch box as they aren't age appropriate; the parent’s response was "But they like eating them". I then suggested they send an extra piece of fruit, the extra piece of fruit started appearing last week. |
| WHAT NEXT? Consider what improvements to make and take action. | I would like to do source more resources to support the importance of children eating the appropriate foods - how important 'chewing' foods is for their child's speech development is and that quality is better than convenience. |