{"id":205329,"date":"2025-02-03T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/how-philosophical-thinking-shapes-healthy-habits-in-preschoolers"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:41:16","slug":"how-philosophical-thinking-shapes-healthy-habits-in-preschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/how-philosophical-thinking-shapes-healthy-habits-in-preschoolers","title":{"rendered":"How philosophical thinking shapes healthy habits in preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-philosophical-thinking-shapes-healthy-habits-in-preschoolers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teaching healthy lifestyle behaviors to very young children is foundational to their future habits. Previous evidence suggests that philosophical thinking (PT) can help children develop moral values, cognitive skills, and decision-making abilities.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-025-21407-1\" rel=\"noopener\">BMC Public Health<\/a><\/em> explores the role of PT in assisting preschoolers to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors. Some of these habits include being physically active, eating healthy, washing hands properly, having respect for one\u2019s body, being aware of one\u2019s needs, feelings, abilities, and responsibilities, getting sufficient sleep, and sharing one\u2019s thoughts with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching healthy lifestyle behaviors to very young children is foundational to their future habits. Previous evidence suggests that philosophical thinking (PT) can help children develop moral values, cognitive skills, and decision-making abilities. A recent study published in BMC Public Health explores the role of PT in assisting preschoolers to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors. Some of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-ethics","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}