Some argue that it is the responsibility of the parents to teach children about healthy eating habits, whereas others believe that teachers should be responsible for teaching their students how to eat in a healthy way. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Home and

school

are considered the primary domain of learning for kids. Young minds are like a mound of clay, transient, waiting to be shaped and metamorphosed into a matured human being. But as ancient Greek wisdom had claimed it thousands of years ago, a sound mind can reside only in a sound body. Since

physical constitution

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the physical constitution

depends essentially on good eating

habit

, the importance of learning to eat nutrient-rich

food

from an early age cannot be stressed enough.

Whereas Some

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Whereas, Some

tend to

belief

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believe

the primary

responsibility

for building a good

food

habit

of their children falls on the parents, many would see

school

as the principal site for

such

habit

formation. While both sides have significant rationale to support their claim, I argue that the

responsibility

should be shared equally by these two separate but complementary pedagogical locations. In the following paragraphs, I will look at both sides of the argument and provide

reasoning

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reasons

for my own position. When a new

life

comes into being, it

finds

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found

itself already entangled in a cultural

meshwork

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mesh-work

. It finds

itslef

reflexive from of "it"

itself

firmly rooted within a certain ethos, and a particular language, a set or

ethical moral

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ethical, moral

principals and home

is

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are

the primary site where the process of inculcation of

socio

relating to human society and its members

social

-ethical values and habits begin. For children, parents act as

role

models and as soon as their cognitive capability crosses a certain threshold enabling them to form

partical

unique or specific to a person or thing or category

particular

memory and make sense of a variety of actions in their own way, they start to emulate elders, especially their parents. In

this

early phase of

life

,

immitation

the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations

imitation

works as a crucial mode of learning for kids.

Hence

, like any other practice, what kind of

food

they would grow into depends substantially on the

culinery

of or relating to or used in cooking

culinary

preference of their parents.

Hence

, in order to keep their offspring well nourished, it is the primary duty of the guardians to take extreme care of what kind of

food

the young body is exposed to. As these early years are often claimed as the formative period,

hence

great care should be taken to ensure that the body gets its essential nutrients

such

as vitamins, minerals, proteins etc. And being the closest and most influential beings in the early

life

of a child, there is sufficient reason to think that to a great extent, parents should be liable to shape their kid's palate so as to provide them with a strong physical constitution. But just as parents occupy an essential

role

when it concerns the

habit

of their children, schools - often hailed

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florid

as '

second

home' -

also

act as an important instrument. Even as they start to eat a certain kind of

food

through the active intervention of parents long before they start going to

school

, they are often not told the exact reason for choosing

one

food

over another. So, at

this

stage, their choice of consumption works on a practical level without the proper

knowledge

as to why we need to avoid certain dishes and why it is essential to arrange our

food

intake in a certain way. And

this

is where teachers in

school

can become functional. It is for them to provide these young minds with the proper information regarding nutrition and the importance of acquiring a healthy

food

habit

. Since in our society teachers formally seen as the reservoir and disseminator of

knowledge

, guidance coming from them concerning

food habits

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the food habits

and can have a lasting impact on these youngsters.

Hence

, it is the teacher’s

responsibility

to bring what these children already practice to the level of

knowledge

.

Thus

, what begins at home at an early stage at the level of practice, enters the domain of

knowledge

at

school

.

Therefore

, the

role

of teachers in forming the

food

habits of

the young

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the younger

generation is as important and complementary to the

one

played by parents. To conclude, thinking in terms of

binary opposition

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binary oppositions

a binary opposition

as to whether it is

preliminarily

denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important; designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding

preliminary

the

responsibility

of parents of teachers to

morphe

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

move

morph

the palate of

the young

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younger

the younger

children often attributes importance to

one

side at the cost of another and fails to take into account the complexity of the multitude of processes that shaping a

habit

calls for. But when we look at both the sides and explore the different roles that they play in the nutritional

life

of children, it slowly becomes clear that the

responsibility

doesn't lie entirely on the

one

or the other, but rather they play a complementary

role

.