How can snack and mealtimes support childrens social development?
Meals and snacktimes are great ways to add to child development both with peers and with family members.
How Group Mealtime Contributes to Social Development
- Children will learn how to interact with peers while eating.
- Children are taught social norms and table manners.
- Children are taught to share their food, or even trade snacks.
- Children will learn proper hygeine including washing dishes and washing hands.
- Motor skills will be developed as children are asked to pour their own milk and cut their own food.
- Children grasp a greater understanding about how to act in social situations.
