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NEW FOOD PACKAGING IN STORE NOW
From August 2018, customers will notice our rebranded food packaging start to appear on shelf in all major stockists.
We are excited to announce our new packaging will start to appear on shelf from August 2018. This transition to new packaging will occur over a number of months. During this time there will be a mix of current and new packaging on shelf.
There are no major changes to these products, in some instances there is a small name change or slight recipe improvement, see below for the full details.
Products purchased via the website will be delivered to customers in our old packaging until the end of October. From November, products ordered from the website will be delivered in the new packaging.
Please note, our Infant Formula packaging will not be rebranded until later in 2019.
For any questions, connect with our team of accredited practising Dietitians on +61 3 6332 9200
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Most children are partial to the odd fib or two, but the first time your child lies it can come as a surprise. How do you handle it? What are you supposed to do?
Simply put, lying is a normal part of a child’s development – but so is learning to tell the truth. By teaching your child that honesty is important, you teach them to limit the lies and strive for truth telling whenever possible.
Children lie for a number of reasons. For starters, kids aren’t born with a moral code. Telling the truth is something they have to figure out and comes with learning important social rules. They watch us adults constantly to see what they are supposed to do and how they’re supposed to negotiate their world. The need for truth telling and the ability to understand the concept of lying are things that your child needs to grow into.
From birth to three years, your child is part of a highly confusing world and they depend on adults for their very survival. Often what looks like “lies” are either honest mistakes or efforts to protect themselves or to mollify the grownups. Your child will take their cues from your tone of voice, therefore, “Did you knock over that milk?” said angrily is likely to get a “No, it wasn’t me” response. Your child depends on your love and the last thing they want is to upset you and risk their protection. Children need to feel safe.
For children aged 3-7, they are still figuring out the difference between fantasy and reality. They create imaginary worlds within their play and sometimes they are not clear when their creations leave off and the real world begins. This isn’t always helped by the fact that many parents encourage these fantasies, sometimes going as far as to set a place at the table for an imaginary friend. Pretend play is crucial for development, but it also creates confusion. As a parent, you don’t want to shut down your child’s creativity, but you do need to establish when it’s appropriate to tell tales and when it’s not.
By age 7, your child should have a good understanding of what it means to lie. If they have been raised in a home and neighbourhood where the rules surrounding truth telling are clear, they will likely do their best to comply. At the end of the day, most kids simply want adult approval and want to be on the side of truth and justice.
Common reasons for lying no matter the age include:
Once children are old enough to understand the difference between truth and lies, it’s important to encourage truth telling. You can do this by emphasising the importance of honesty in your family and by praising your child for honesty – even if it means they’ve done something you don’t approve of.
Our job as parents is to be consistently good models of honest living. By living your life with integrity and by refraining from ducking responsibilities, we demonstrate the importance of honesty.
As mentioned, children are born with no moral code – it’s up to us to teach them one. They also aren’t born with the knowledge that lying can be hurtful, so again, you need to teach them this. Most children recognise that lying is frowned upon and that it can come with consequences, but many don’t understand that lying can be hurtful. To them, it’s no big deal that they ate a sugary snack right before dinner, because it didn’t hurt anyone. Why should they confess to it?
When a child doesn’t see lying as hurtful, there are two different value systems in play: the family’s value system that says lying is forbidden, and the child’s value that says if it’s not hurting anyone then an action can be rationalised. The outcome is a dishonest situation.
Tell your child that you do not like it when they lie to you by using words such as, “When you don’t tell me the truth, I feel sad and disappointed”.
To encourage honesty in your home you should: