Along with the modernised world, people now pay more attention to a healthier lifestyle particularly doing exercises, and creating a balanced diet, thus it is leading to the issue of helping children to make a habit of eating healthier. As a result, there is a debate about the responsibility of providing children with a healthy diet belonging to school or parents. From my perspective, both arguments are reasonable, but I still favour the former point.
On one hand, there are valid arguments suggesting that at-home encouragement can help children build healthy eating habits. Parents are responsible for taking care of their children so that they can find it is not a problem to know how to make children willing to eat healthy food in moderation. However, not all parents have the skills and knowledge enough in this field to handle the teaching role, and a home is a cosy place so it is too hard to create a new habit for young learners since it is not competitive.
On the other hand, it is undeniable that academic institutions will do better in providing children with a healthy diet. Teachers in schools perhaps combine compulsory subjects with essential competencies and put them into reality by practicing in schools via participating and making projects about the importance of having a healthy lifestyle and related topics. For instance, adding knowledge about healthy daily meals into extracurricular activities such as bonding days, school camps, and competitions with related topics to raise awareness. Furthermore, the cost of opening training courses for teachers is much cheaper compared to parents.
In conclusion, there are pros and cons in encouraging young learners to create healthy lifestyles at home whereas academic institutions are showing that they are in harmony with building healthy eating habits for children.