{"id":21237,"date":"2019-09-13T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunchbox.eu\/?p=21237"},"modified":"2019-10-12T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T15:39:44","slug":"reduce-lunch-waste-10-steps-to-engage-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunchbox.eu\/en\/reduce-lunch-waste-10-steps-to-engage-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Lunch Waste – 10 steps to engage kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If a waste-free lunch program is implemented at school and supported at home, most children will participate with enthusiastic. It is always a good idea to use a Motivation Program to help kids understand you better. Clean environment and waste reduction are a daily task that everyone should approach in a responsible and disciplined manner. May this year everyone be the change he wants others to see!<\/p>\r\n

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  1. First ask your child why he or she doesn’t want to participate. Validate the child’s feelings, and try to accommodate any requests that are reasonable and acceptable to you.<\/li>\r\n
  2. Next, talk with your child about the importance of good health and caring for the environment.<\/li>\r\n
  3. Ask your child to help plan a lunch menu program. If your children are old enough, and if they aren’t doing so already, find out if they’d like to help prepare their lunches.<\/li>\r\n
  4. If your child is worried about being the only kid at school with a waste-free lunch, you may want to talk with other parents about joining you in your endeavor to reduce waste, or consider helping to implement a waste-free lunch program at the school.<\/li>\r\n
  5. If reducing waste is a community effort, children will accept it and will likely become enthusiastic supporters.<\/li>\r\n
  6. To use the Star Incentive Program, you’ll first need to purchase star (or other) stickers. Increase motivation by allowing your child to pick them out.<\/li>\r\n
  7. At the beginning of each month, print off the blank Star Incentive calendar provided below.<\/li>\r\n
  8. Reward your children with a sticker for each day that they agree to take a waste-free lunch to school.<\/li>\r\n
  9. When they have accumulated a certain number of stickers, allow them to pick out a special treat, such as a trip to the movies or to a play, or arrange a play date with a friend who, because of distance, you would not normally make the effort to get together with.<\/li>\r\n
  10. You can give the stickers to the children in the morning, when they return from school, or put them in their lunchbox as a lunchtime surprise.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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    Motivation Sheet<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

    Download a copy of Motivation sheet<\/a><\/strong> and use it with your family.<\/p>\r\n

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