Essay CHC50113: Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care – CHCECE004: Promote and provide healthy food and drinks – Child Development Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Case study 1 (CHC50113)
You are working in an early childhood education and care service that asks families to provide their children’s snacks, meals and drinks for consumption throughout the day. A parent has begun sending juice in their child’s drink bottle, instead of following the service’s Food and Nutrition Policy, which states that children should only drink water when in care at the service. After discussing this with the parent, the parent begins to send colourless cordial in their child’s drink bottle.

Complete the following:
a) Which policies, typically available in an early education and care service, is this parent breaching? Identify two policies.

b) Identify two information resources that you could direct the parent to in order to educate them about the dangers of giving their child unhealthy drinks. In your answer, include the full title of each information resource and/or website including the Web address to clearly identify to the assessor the resources you would direct the parent to.

c) Briefly outline three possible health implications for this child if they are only drinking sugary fluids.

Case study 2 (CHC50113)
You are working in an early childhood education and care service that asks families to provide their children’s snacks and meals. You have noticed that one of the families who access the service continually pack their child’s lunchbox with highly processed, brown coloured, carbohydrate rich foods, such as bread, biscuits, Nutri-Grain breakfast cereal and rice crackers.

Complete the following:
a) Briefly outline three strategies that you could use to make the child’s parents aware of the need to include a variety of food types in their child’s lunch.

b) Briefly describe three experiences you could include in the service’s educational program to promote and role model healthy eating amongst the children.