Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Want Healthier Kids? Start with What You Eat 🥦

30 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube segment, Mona Sharma addresses the common parental challenge of getting children to eat vegetables. She emphasizes the importance of parents acting as role models by having vegetables present and consuming them daily. Her first tip is to involve kids in the growing process: planting seeds (e.g., broccoli) and watching them sprout, which can turn the vegetable into a favorite food. When direct planting isn’t feasible, she suggests using time‑lapse videos or simple home planters to demonstrate how vegetables grow, making the experience engaging and educational for young children.

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How do we bring kids into this mini ashram experience and how do we convince them to give this a shot? Yeah, so especially vegetables with kids, right? This is a pretty stressful topic for parents. Like I've got a five year old and a one year old and I would say that first and foremost you want to be the role model. Have veggies at your house every single day. You have to lead by example. Tip number one is, you know, show them how vegetables are grown. When I showed my son how to plant broccoli seeds, he was so excited to watch it grow and then finally he could eat it. And even today broccoli is his favorite food. If that's not an option, pull up a video you can see. It's a really cool process when you see time lapse videos. Get a little planter at your house, plant some seeds. It's a really cool thing for them to see.