Behavior | Video | Message | Week in which video was offered to parents |
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Water | Guideline | Video on the guideline for children to drink at least five big or six small glasses a day, why drinking water is important, … | 1 |
Tip 1 | Let your child drink water limitless, and make rules concerning soft drink consumption (e.g., always drink water at dinner, except in weekends) | 1 | |
Tip 2 | Motivate your child to drink water (e.g., fill your child’s favorite goblet with water, and give it to him/her when he/she plays outdoors) | 1 | |
Fruit | Guideline | Video on the guideline for children to eat at least two or three pieces of fruit a day, why eating fruit is important, … | 1 |
Tip 1 | Reinforce your child when he/she eats fruit (e.g., by giving a compliment) | 1 | |
Tip 2 | Make sure that healthy fruit snacks can be eaten easily (e.g., peel and cut the fruit into slice before giving it as a snack to school) | 1 | |
Vegetables | Guideline | Video on the guideline for children to eat at least five to twelve spoons of vegetables a day, why eating vegetables is important, … | 2 |
Tip 1 | Motivate your child each time to taste a vegetable he/she does not like (e.g., it can be necessary to present a vegetable more than 10 times to your child before he/she likes it). | 2 | |
Tip 2 | Make sure that healthy vegetable snacks can be eaten easily (e.g., peel and cut the vegetable into slice before giving it as a snack to school) | 2 | |
Breakfast | Tip 1 | Make sure breakfast is a peaceful and calm moment (e.g., the parent can make lunch the evening before so he/she can have breakfast together with the child.) | 2 |
Supermarket | Tip 1 | Involve your child in buying fruit and vegetables in the supermarket. | 2 |
Tip 2 | Limit buying unhealthy food as much as possible (e.g., enter into agreements concerning buying cookies before going to the supermarket). | 2 | |
PA | Guideline | Video on the guideline for children to be physically active for at least 1 h a day, why PA is important, … | 3 |
Tip 1 | Try to be active in as many ways as possible during the day (e.g., by accompanying your child by bike to school) | 3 | |
Tip 2 | Be a good model for your child by being physically active together with him/her (e.g., propose some activities you can do together). | 3 | |
Tip 3 | Motivate your child to be physically active (e.g., when he/she suddenly does not want to go to the youth movement anymore). | 3 | |
Tip 4 | Make physical activities pleasant for your child (e.g., let him/her choose to walk, roller-skate, ride a scooter…) | 3 | |
Screen-time | Guideline | Video on the guideline for children to limit screen time to 2 h a day, why sedentary behavior is unhealthy, … | 4 |
Tip 1 | Enter into agreements about screen-time, and be consistent (e.g., let your child play on his/her Nintendo for 30 min, and make sure he/she stops playing after half an hour). | 4 | |
Tip 2 | Do not use TV or computer as a mean to keep your child calm (e.g., when you want to do the housekeeping). | 4 | |
Tip 3 | Do pleasant activities together with your child instead of watching TV (e.g., on a sunny Sunday afternoon you can frisbee, cycle, go to the park,…) | 4 | |
General | Time-out | Video on using time-out when your child really misbehaves. | 4 |