Make Lunchtime Healthier with Nestlé® Pure Life® Water

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One habit I want to instill in my kids, besides eating healthy and exercising, is to drink more water. When they were little I was never one to buy juice. They pretty much only drank milk and water. When they started school I wanted to continue the theme of drinking water during the day, however, I got pressured (from my own mind…darn mind) into buying various sugar-filled juice boxes. I finally went back to water a couple of years ago. Ironically enough, they actually told me they preferred the water too! Our favorite is the little Nestlé® Pure Life® Junior water bottles!

This year my son is in 6th grade. I asked around and the general consensus was that most of the middle school kids, boys especially, pack their lunch in paper bags. I thought this was a good idea since my son has a habit of throwing his lunch box away. Yep, he threw three away in one year. Do you know how hard it is to find a decent lunch box in January? It’s hard. I will admit, I was a little freaked out about not putting an ice pack in his lunch, but everyone (including my son) assured me that the food was still good by lunchtime. In fact, my son told me he liked his food better this way because he never liked an ice cold sandwich!

I don’t buy a lot of junk food, much to my children’s dislike. I know what they are like  when they eat junk and are home with me. I really don’t want them at school on some sort of sugar roller coaster. So my son’s lunch typically looks like the one above: ham and turkey sandwich, string cheese, fruit, hard boiled eggs, and veggie chips (he thinks they are just chips, but in fact they are chips made out of potatoes, spinach, broccoli and peas. I win!). For his drink, he always gets a water. Sometimes, I give him the small water, but other times I give him the bigger water bottle so he can use it to drink throughout the day.

My two crazy kids love to drink water and yours can too! According to a recent survey* conducted by Nestlé® Pure Life®, here a few tips by Robin Plotkin that will get your kids drinking more water:

• Lead by example. Each time Mom or Dad goes for a drink of water, ask your children if they’d like a drink of water too. Soon it will be the kids asking the parents if they’d like to join them for a water break!
• Prep a week’s worth of bottled water, like Nestlé® Pure Life® Purified Water, for lunches or on-the-go events at one time. Store in the freezer and remove when needed to stock lunches, backpacks or gym bags. The water will be ready to drink when your child is ready!
• Have cups, straws, lids and other drinking “equipment” available to provide to your kids to make drinking water more fun. Empower them to fill their own cups of water and praise them when they do.

Unfortunately, it was found, in that same survey* conducted by Nestlé® Pure Life® that moms don’t give regular water reminders. Barely half of the moms (52%) regularly remind their child to drink water. And, as a result, it was found that kids who drink less than 4 glasses of water a day are more likely to request soda, juice, and sports drinks (76%). If that doesn’t tell you the importance of getting our children to drink more water, then I don’t know what does!

The Ripple Effect

These crazy kids love to drink water, which is great for me. Nestlé® Pure Life® has committed to providing about one million 8 ounce servings of water to kids this school year through their After-School All-Stars program. The After-School-All-Stars program is a program that is designed to keep kids healthy and safe through after-school programming. You can find this program at over 20 participating schools in select markets across the country. Nestlé® Pure Life® is a proud supporter of the Healthier America’s Drink Up initiative and they feel that it is important to make healthy choices. By making those healthy choices at a young age, kids are able to carry those habits throughout the rest of their life. That’s the Ripple Effect! If you would like to help your family make healthier choices and be apart of the Ripple Effect, visit PureLifeRippleEffect.com and find great tips, as well as share your own, for healthy hydration using #PureLifeRippleEffect

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So…I’ve shared with your how my kids stay hydrated throughout the day and how I make sure their back-to-school lunches are healthy and delicious with Nestlé® Pure Life® water, what about you? What are your tips and tricks?

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*Online survey conducted in June 2015 of 1,077 moms of kids ages 6-12 overall, including 254 Hispanic moms of kids ages 6-12. 1,077 kids ages 6-12 from the same household were also surveyed, including 254 Hispanic kids ages 6-12. © 2015 Nestlé® Waters North America Inc.