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To develop language and conversation skills, young children need many opportunities to talk—with each other, with adults, one-on-one, and in a group. Educators can create opportunities for children to engage in conversation throughout the day.
Leading with love means we must practice and share our knowledge with children as to what kindness, empathy, and compassion look like and feel like.
Dr. Vincent Felitti first discovered the link between untreated child sexual abuse and obesity during an obesity study In the 1980s. During Dr. Felitti’s interview of patients in the study he discovered that a majority of 286 people he interviewed had experienced childhood sexual abuse.
Doesn’t make sense right? Old people have heart attacks not children. However obesity and overweight are strongly linked to CVD, by nearly 60 percent if they are overweight. So by preventing too much weight gain in children you can reduce their CVD risk factors and ultimately CVD as they become adults.
