Tutor Time Supports Healthy Habbits

Our comprehensive Grow Fit™ program is designed to help pave the way for a lifetime of healthy habits. By encouraging balanced nutrition and physical activity in early childhood, we’re helping children reach their full potential and prevent chronic diseases later in life.

We have joined the Partnership for a Healthier America, and are combining forces with leaders in other industries in a commitment to achieve the Let's Move! Childcare standards. 

Our program includes the following goals to help build a generation of healthy children:

• Physical Activity: 1-2 hours every day, including outside play when possible.
• Screen Time: At school, no more than 30 minutes weekly. At home, aim for no more than 1-2 hours/day of quality screen time. (None for kids under 2.)
• Food: Serve fruits or vegetables during at least 2 eating occasions per day. Meals served family style. Avoid serving fried foods.
• Beverages: Water, whenever. No sugar-sweetened drinks. For ages 2+: low- or non-fat milk. Serve 4-6 ounces max of 100% juice a day.
• Infant Feeding: We support parents’ decisions about infant feeding. Breastfeeding moms can provide their milk to their infants and are welcome to breastfeed during school time. 

Because childhood obesity is becoming a major health issue, parents everywhere are concerned about teaching their children to eat nutritious meals and maintain a healthy weight. Here are some basic ideas you can do at home to instill good nutrition habits in your kids from an early age:

• Set the right example. Let your children see you eating good food, not junk.

• Provide a healthy variety. Don’t force foods on kids, but make nutritious food available in your home so they can choose what they want.

• Avoid power struggles. You can’t control what other children eat, nor what your child eats at a friend’s house. You can set the rules for your own home, so do it and don’t obsess about what others do.

• Involve your children. Take them to the store so they can see what you choose and so they can make a few selections of their own. Enlist them in helping prepare meals so they see what goes into a healthy dinner. Talk about where fruits and vegetables come from, and what goes into processed foods.

• Eat together. As much as possible, schedule dinners so everyone in the family can join. This helps you influence what your children eat at meals.

• Remind everyone to slow down. The faster people eat, the more they eat, generally speaking. Don’t let your kids race through dinner; urge them to take their time with every bite.

• Drink water. Water is better than soda and other sugary drinks, and helps kids feel full between meals.