KidsInTheHouse the Ultimate Parenting Resource
Kids in the House Tour

Reasons Why Organic Products Are Better for Babies

Organic Products Are Better for Babies

Growing up, your child needs plenty of support. Whether it’s physical or emotional, you need to help provide the right building blocks so that they can grow into healthy, happy, and smart adults. It often begins with the food they eat and the things they play with. What your child eats and interacts with helps form the basis of their lives in very fundamental ways.

Knowing this, it’s crucial that you provide your child with things like organic foods and products so that they can be that healthy version of themselves. If you’re unsure of why organic is the way to go or don’t believe it’s true, here are some reasons to help you understand.

1. You Know What’s In Their Food

Food being important is an understatement. We usually don’t realize what we eat, but the things we put into our bodies often don’t help us in ways we would like. For children, it’s amplified because they require food to fuel their body and growth. Knowing that organic food contains simple ingredients and has a reduced risk of allergens or chemicals makes it an easier choice when choosing things that will help fuel their brain and their body.

2. You Can Source the Products

Sourcing products is a major reason why parents should consider organic over alternatives. It’s not just food either, organic baby products also include toys. You can see things like ingredients in food, whether there are pesticides used on crops or additives, but toys are a surprise for many parents. Some parents choose not to let their baby’s play with plastics because they may chew on them and it could affect them. This is a real concern, so it’s good to know how to source a product, even a wood toy block for your child.

3. Reduced Risk of Chemicals

Chemicals have been mentioned a few times already and it’s a big concern. Whether it’s pesticides used on crops for vegetables or fruits, or if it’s additives in processed meats or dairy, there are a lot of things that are in baby products that you have no clue what they do. These can cause cancers, mental illnesses, diseases, and plenty of other problems that will develop later on in life. Knowing what may be affecting your child now from the things they use is important in giving them safe products to eat, play with, wear, etc.

4. Feel Better About Your Choices

On a moralistic level, it’s always good to feel like you’re doing your best to provide your child with healthy options. Be it toys or food, organic material will help you sleep better at night knowing you’re giving them something that is good for them. This is a good way to feel like you’re doing a good job as a parent, and it’s perfectly acceptable to want to feel selfish and brag about this aspect of parenthood.

5. Help Your Child Develop a Good Taste Palate 

Kids grow up eating so much processed food that they end up developing a refined palate that is focused on those processed foods. Salty products, meats, dairies, preservatives, etc are all things that your child may be more accustomed to over time because of their diet, so when you feed them organic and healthy foods at a young age, they start to develop a more natural palate. This makes them appreciate healthier options and they’ll be more receptive to eating healthy options rather than spitting out their broccoli at a meal in favor of McDonald’s.

6. Encourages Buying Locally

As another addition to the moral category, it stands to reason that buying organic will likely lead to you buying locally. There are a lot of wonderful organic products available at chain grocery stores and other big providers, but sometimes you want to find products that are cheaper. This is why local farmers and sellers are so useful. Not to mention the price, but helping out the local economy by buying from them helps go back into the community. Supporting one another, especially now, is something that you can feel good about and impart on your child one day as a life lesson.

Making sure your child is happy and healthy isn’t always about the love you give, but about the things you provide them with like food, toys, etc. Making sure to give them organic has reasons for it being a much better choice and this should help you understand.