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Below are a selection of resources for you to use with parents to help them understand their child`s development and nutritional needs.
Ten Steps for Healthy ToddlersThe ‘Ten Steps for Healthy Toddlers’ are a set of practical, easy-to-follow steps to help parents and carers encourage good mealtime behaviour and feed toddlers healthily. Visit the Little People’s Plates website to see the Ten Steps for Healthy Toddlers online, or download materials here.
Little People`s Plates
The Forum has now broadened its reach to communicate directly with parents via the Little People’s Plates initiative. The link below will take you to the Little People’s Plates website where you will find additional resources that you can use with parents, or that you can direct them to to use themselves. http://www.littlepeoplesplates.co.uk/
Guidance & Tips for Parents
These are black and white information sheets taken from the back of the Factsheets. Here they can be downloaded separately, and can be photocopied to aid your work with parents. Some of these sheets are also available on the Little People’s Plates website in a more visual format.
Toddler Dietary Assessment Charts
These downloadable charts have been developed to help record and monitor what a toddler is eating, and to see how closely this meets the recommendations for a toddler’s daily and weekly food intake. They can be used to compliment face-to-face advice, and are also available for parents to use themselves on the Little People’s Plates website.
Tot It Up food calculator
The latest resource available through Little People’s Plates is the Tot It Up food calculator, designed to help parents monitor and asses what their toddler is eating, and to compare this to the recommendations. It also allows them to monitor their toddler’s activity levels and includes practical tips on how to encourage active play as well what constitutes a healthy diet for toddlers.
Tot it Up: Frequently asked questions