Posted on 06/09/2011 8:44:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama dropped in on lunch and circle time at a Washington child care center on Wednesday and used the occasion to announce a new national initiative to encourage child care centers to promote healthy eating and exercise habits starting with the littlest Americans.
The first lady watched as toddlers ate a healthy lunch of fish, fruit and salad greens, did the bunny hop with youngsters in a P.E. class and clapped along with singing time at CentroNia, a bilingual child care center that stresses just the kinds of healthy practices that Mrs. Obama is trying to encourage.
The first lady said instilling good health habits through child care centers and home-based care can be "a real building block for an entire generation of healthy kids." She noted that more than half of obese children first become overweight before they reach their second birthday.
Mrs. Obama announced that 1,600 child care centers nationwide already have committed to standards that promote healthy eating, exercise and limited time in front of TV, computer and other screens. And she released a checklist that parents and child care centers can use to make sure they're hitting the right notes.
The first lady said child care centers run by the Defense Department, the General Services Administration and Bright Horizons, a private company that manages child care centers for many corporations, hospitals, universities and government agencies, all had signed on to the program.
She was joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cartwright recalled that when his children were young, military child care centers were sometimes "just a corner of a hangar" without clear standards. Some 200,000 children use military child care centers daily.
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Anyone wonder when the King and Queen will be legislating control over our bedrooms?
Never saw anything like that pink bow & hope I never do again.
You think you'd have any chickens left?
Guess my garden will be stripped of watermelons too. She is NOT getting near my horses, she might find them tastier then Kobi beef.
Yes, a lot has to do with preparation!
LOL! Those vacation gal threads were the best!
i’ve got to say, none of my children ate very balanced diets when they were toddlers, and they didn’t like vegetables, and I never pushed too hard (remembering the okra incident from my own childhood) but they were never fat.
It’s more a matter of not feeding them constantly, not pushing sugary drinks, not pushing sugary snacks.
Toddlers are too lively to fatten up under most circumstances.
I’m just here for the pictures...and not disappointed LOL!
“The first lady watched as toddlers ate a healthy lunch of fish, fruit and salad greens”
Does the average toddler like fish?
That sounds like a good way to raise an anemic child who throws a lot of hissyfit tantrums over the mercury poisoning from all the sushi lunches.
Looking at her Butt, it’s obvious she’s eaten quite a few toddlers: why can’t the rest of us have some ??
I gather you absorbed the “cost” of staying home with your younglings?
BTW, I appreciate your reply, and agree about the sugary things.
I regret more moms are not staying home with the children during the early ears.
Mrs. Obama might have better argument if she recommended the advantages of weekday maternal care.
Peanut butter and jelly, or a bologna sandwich with mustard...an apple or orange in my Superman lunch box. Cannot remember what was in the thermos. This was 1st - 6 grade. Was I happy...yeah.
Was I chubby...nope..played lots of kick and dodge ball.
Our dipsh_t first lady (and I use the term very loosely) of the perpetual angry scowl face. What an butt ass ugly beeeeotch! As much as I hate the metrosexual 0dumb0, I can understand why he wants to spend so much time on the golf course, away from phat ass mabelle michelle!
I wonder if they’ll go Old School and mandate that all of us use the missionary position...
Damn, woman, the rest of us need to eat, too!
You had me at bologna.
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