STUDY SHOWS WHEN FATHERS AND MOTHERS ARE IN SYNC, CHILDREN ARE MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP HEALTHY EATING PRACTICES
Raising children is hard work. Parents want their children to grow up happy, healthy and well-adjusted. Yet in the last 30 years, obesity rates among Canadian youth and children has tripled. Clearly, there is still work to be done to help parents guide their children towards healthy eating habits.
Natural ecosystems are replete with mutually beneficial symbiotic relationships. How an organism finds and fills a unique niche in a way that enriches both species is always amazing to observe and adds to the variety and beauty of life.
Similarly, Shared Value Solutions (SVS), a human environment consulting firm based in Guelph, Ontario has developed a special, mutually beneficial relationship with the University of Guelph.
Sophia Hou is an undergraduate student in the Applied Human Nutrition program in the Department of Family Relations and Human Nutrition at the University of Guelph. Sophia keeps a nutrition and health blog titled houbakes.com. In her latest blog post, she shared with us her mission to celebrate and preserve her Chinese heritage and her reasons for doing so.
My PhD journey began in September 2016. My start was probably a bit different from the average student’s. I pulled up to MacDonald Institute reminiscing about my graduate school days that I had finished a few years before. I thought about the classes I took and the friends I made during my MSc program in Family Relations and Human Development. This time I was not arriving to Student Orientation with one of my best friends (who happened to be in the same program as me during my master’s), but I was arriving with my parents and my four-month-old son.
Emily Smit is a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph. She is also the mother of three small children. Emily shared her experience over the last year with us in her recent blog post published on nichegeographer.com.
Animal researcher, doctoral student, and winner of CSAHS 3MT People's Choice Award (2021), Briana Renda, from the Department of Psychology investigates the epidemic of teen vaping and its impact on the adolescent brain.
Bryant and Constantin, doctoral students in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, developed and facilitated a self-compassion webinar to support fellow graduate students in learning how to relieve stress, develop coping skills, and to explore the benefits of self-compassion.
Abhilash Kantamneni, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment & Geomatics, creates interactive maps to foster a sense of belonging with mapping the things that matter.
Justice. Our innate desire for justice reaches to the core of what it means to be human. We have a natural, guttural reaction to injustice – especially when it is aimed in our direction – and yet, we live in a world that is filled with injustice.
Being a parent has never been easy – the age of COVID-19 has magnified that struggle tenfold. Juggling being a daycare provider, teacher, IT technician for online learning, all while trying to navigate working from home, has left many parents feeling overwhelmed, exhausted and frustrated (on occasion). The pandemic has placed a mental health strain on both children and their guardians.