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Feeding of Children Linked to "Parenting Style"
Parents often fall into one of three styles of parenting: strict, permissive or somewhere in between. Now a new study from Oklahoma State University finds that those styles affect how parents manage their children's diets.
Researchers who looked at parents of 239 first-graders found the following:
- Strict or authoritative parents were likely to prohibit their children from eating certain foods, and pressure them into fruits and vegetables.
- Permissive parents allowed their offspring to eat what they wanted.
- Both authoritative and in-between parents tended to lead by example and eat in healthy ways themselves.
- Neither the permissive nor the strict parents were good diet role models.
Dr. Laura Hubbs-Tair, author of the study, said she believes that family dynamics are an important consideration in finding solutions to
childhood obesity.
This study appeared in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Labels: chilhood_obesity, diet, parenting_styles
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