Since the program began in April 2003, 108 children have been treated, one or two at a time, each for three weeks on an inpatient basis. They and other children might have developed psychological aversions to food, and often the behavior of desperate parents only makes the problem worse. Some need to be trained how to swallow and chew their food. Some only get nutrients through a G-tube, in which food is delivered directly into the abdomen. Many of them have endured medical disorders, including lung disease and heart defects, that inhibit their ability to eat normally. The kids who enter the CHOC program, usually age 2 to 6, have issues that go far beyond just being a picky eater. Katz, director of the hospital’s Multidisciplinary Feeding Program. Behind a one-way window, a team of specialists rejoiced. With prodding from his mom, he popped cubes of nugget into his mouth, scarfed the apples, nibbled fries and washed it all down with chocolate milk. As for the ingredients in Mickey D’s signature kids’ offering, he’d never eaten a chicken nugget, and rarely had munched an apple slice or a fry.īut last week, as he sat with his mother at a table inside a tiny room in the basement of Children’s Hospital of Orange County in Orange, he ate just about all of it. Until recently, her 3-year-old son Joshua’s diet consisted mostly of chocolate, Pop-Tarts, graham crackers, and the berries in Cap’N Crunch’s Crunch Berries. Lunch is served, and the kid is quiet for now.įor Gretchen Benson of Chino Hills, the Happy Meal represented a triumph. For others, it’s a blessing of convenience. Some see it as a nutritional defeat: a box of fried guilt, with a toy thrown in as a bribe. We look forward to having many more students visit this spring and summer! If you would like more information about school visits, please contact Rachel Schneider or call 97.Moms might have mixed feelings about the McDonald’s Happy Meal. The presence, numbers, and varieties of benthic macroinvertebrate (bugs living on the river bottom) are good indicators of a river’s health. Ipswich River Programs Coordinator Ryan O’Donnell and volunteer extraordinaire Jim MacDougall visited Governor’s Academy, nets in tow, to instruct the students on sampling for macroinvertebrates. The students and instructors are working on documenting and protecting amphibians and reptiles, and as the Kestrel Founder & Program Director Jessica Kagle put it, “the turtles on the Ipswich River are legendary.” Kestrel Educational Adventures, from Gloucester, visited to make use of our boats as part of a service learning project. The Landmark School arrived excited to paddle they learned about our work protecting and restoring the river before venturing out on a trip that took them a good ways upstream of our Riverbend dock. More schools and youth groups have made recent return-visits to Riverbend. Indeed, our video camera confirmed the passage of both lamprey and herring! With water temperatures at the peak level for fish migration, students were thrilled when they spotted some movement. “I learned that the Ipswich River supplies drinking water for many towns – including us in Beverly.”Īfter having lunch by the river, students were trained in fish counting at the fish ladder over the Ipswich Mills Dam. “I learned that Boxford has private wells for water. “Thank you for helping us know all about fish and how they get up a stream.” “I learned that a watershed is not a shed on water!” The students sent wonderful thank you notes back to us, saying: This all is a good segway to keeping the watershed healthy.” As teacher Kelly Zaval explains, “Fish migration is a great starting point, as we have been talking about whale migration in class and saw eels that migrate in the other direction this fall at Mill Pond in Rockport. With a year-long 4th grade curriculum that focuses on “The Sea”, visiting the watershed association fits right into their class discussions at this point in the year. Recently, the 4th grade students from the Glen Urquhart School in Beverly (pictured above) visited Riverbend to learn about the river and to help with the spring Herring Count. We love having youth groups visit and helping them to learn about this wonderful river.
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