Early Nutrition: Birth to Adolescence
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Give children the healthiest start: learn early nutrition strategies for lifelong wellbeing. Ideal for parents, educators and healthcare workers​. Get early nutrition right to set a solid foundation for wellbeing.
Overview
Comprehensive and practical, this course will ensure you feel confident that your little one or children in your care are getting the best start to set them up with lifelong good health. This course offers a rare insight into Childhood Nutrition that you are unlikely to find elsewhere. Covering global guidelines spanning birth to adolescence, all you need to know about early nutrition and healthy eating is in this course.
Suited for parents, carers, child care workers, educators, coaches, counsellors, nurses and GPs, the language is friendly and the content is fully referenced with extensive tools, guidelines and readings to take your understanding as far as you require.
Suited for parents, carers, child care workers, educators, coaches, counsellors, nurses and GPs, the language is friendly and the content is fully referenced with extensive tools, guidelines and readings to take your understanding as far as you require.
Details
HOW WILL YOU LEARN ▼
WCGE08: Early Nutrition: Birth to Adolescence
Learning and teaching
We use modern blended learning approach. This course is designed for flexibility and ease, with downloadable topic-based textbooks in PDF format, guided instructions to keep you on track, and an interactive workbook packed with videos, tasks, and note-taking space. You'll also gain access to essential readings, templates, and tools for extended learning. Stay up to date with the latest in nutrition and health, and make the most of this dynamic, evidence-based learning experience!
Learning and teaching
We use modern blended learning approach. This course is designed for flexibility and ease, with downloadable topic-based textbooks in PDF format, guided instructions to keep you on track, and an interactive workbook packed with videos, tasks, and note-taking space. You'll also gain access to essential readings, templates, and tools for extended learning. Stay up to date with the latest in nutrition and health, and make the most of this dynamic, evidence-based learning experience!
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Assessment methods
At Well College, assessments are learning tools—not tricks. This unit’s online quiz has 40 multiple‑choice questions; it’s open‑book, untimed, and you may take up to three attempts. On passing, you can instantly download your Certificate plus a Statement of Continuing Education (CPD/CE) Points for your records and employer. |
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Learning at WCG
Classes vary by course and mix formats for meaningful interaction with staff, industry experts, and peers. WCG prioritises active learning over large lectures, with core content provided online through readings, videos, and other on‑demand materials.
Classes vary by course and mix formats for meaningful interaction with staff, industry experts, and peers. WCG prioritises active learning over large lectures, with core content provided online through readings, videos, and other on‑demand materials.
COURSE STRUCTURE ▼
There are 11 topics to complete the unit. Each topic has a combined downloadable PDF Text and Work Book.
There is a set of readings including tools and templates referred to in the text Book.
Estimate approximately 20 hours of study.
Continuing Education
Students enrolled in a WCG Diploma, Program or Certificate where this subject is a core elective, will have free ongoing access to the Coaching, Health and Business Live Classes.
There is a set of readings including tools and templates referred to in the text Book.
Estimate approximately 20 hours of study.
Continuing Education
Students enrolled in a WCG Diploma, Program or Certificate where this subject is a core elective, will have free ongoing access to the Coaching, Health and Business Live Classes.
UNIT CONTENT ▼
Early Nutrition Principles
Understand the critical role nutrition plays from conception through the early years, including how early dietary exposures can influence lifelong health outcomes.
Nutrition Fundamentals
Learn the basics of macronutrients and micronutrients, energy needs, and how to interpret nutrition information for different stages of childhood.
Growth and Development in Babies and Children
Explore how nutrition supports physical, cognitive, and emotional development across infancy, toddlerhood, and the school years.
Food Safety
Gain practical knowledge on food hygiene, safe food preparation, and how to prevent foodborne illness in young children.
Feeding Baby and Progressing to Family Meals
Step-by-step guidance on introducing solids, baby-led weaning, and how to transition your child to family meals with confidence.
Nurturing Healthy Eating Habits from the Start
Discover strategies to foster positive eating behaviors and attitudes from a young age, reducing mealtime stress and encouraging balanced diets.
Nutrients in Our Foods & Early Nutrition Needs
Dive into the role of key nutrients during each stage of early life and how to meet children's unique nutritional requirements through everyday foods.
Vitamins and Minerals
Learn about the most essential vitamins and minerals for growing bodies, signs of deficiency, and how to ensure children are getting what they need.
Creating Healthy Eating Habits in Children
Tools and techniques to encourage a love for wholesome foods, develop structured mealtime routines, and reduce reliance on ultra-processed snacks.
Influences Over Eating Patterns
Explore how environment, parenting style, culture, marketing, and personality shape children's eating behaviours—including how to manage fussy eating and food aversions.
Nutrition & Health
Understand the links between diet and health, including allergies, intolerances, behaviour, mental wellbeing, disordered eating, weight challenges, and support for sporty or active children.
Creating and Planning Healthy Meals
Practical meal-planning skills to help you prepare balanced, age-appropriate meals for infants through to teens, including templates, tips, and real-life examples.
Understand the critical role nutrition plays from conception through the early years, including how early dietary exposures can influence lifelong health outcomes.
Nutrition Fundamentals
Learn the basics of macronutrients and micronutrients, energy needs, and how to interpret nutrition information for different stages of childhood.
Growth and Development in Babies and Children
Explore how nutrition supports physical, cognitive, and emotional development across infancy, toddlerhood, and the school years.
Food Safety
Gain practical knowledge on food hygiene, safe food preparation, and how to prevent foodborne illness in young children.
Feeding Baby and Progressing to Family Meals
Step-by-step guidance on introducing solids, baby-led weaning, and how to transition your child to family meals with confidence.
Nurturing Healthy Eating Habits from the Start
Discover strategies to foster positive eating behaviors and attitudes from a young age, reducing mealtime stress and encouraging balanced diets.
Nutrients in Our Foods & Early Nutrition Needs
Dive into the role of key nutrients during each stage of early life and how to meet children's unique nutritional requirements through everyday foods.
Vitamins and Minerals
Learn about the most essential vitamins and minerals for growing bodies, signs of deficiency, and how to ensure children are getting what they need.
Creating Healthy Eating Habits in Children
Tools and techniques to encourage a love for wholesome foods, develop structured mealtime routines, and reduce reliance on ultra-processed snacks.
Influences Over Eating Patterns
Explore how environment, parenting style, culture, marketing, and personality shape children's eating behaviours—including how to manage fussy eating and food aversions.
Nutrition & Health
Understand the links between diet and health, including allergies, intolerances, behaviour, mental wellbeing, disordered eating, weight challenges, and support for sporty or active children.
Creating and Planning Healthy Meals
Practical meal-planning skills to help you prepare balanced, age-appropriate meals for infants through to teens, including templates, tips, and real-life examples.
LEARNING OUTCOMES ▼
Students by the end of the course will be competent to:
- Confidently assess and support the nutritional needs of infants, children, and adolescents using evidence-based principles tailored to each developmental stage.
- Plan and prepare age-appropriate, balanced meals that align with global nutrition guidelines and support healthy growth and development.
- Identify key nutrients, vitamins, and minerals essential for childhood wellbeing and recognize signs of deficiency or excess.
- Foster positive eating behaviors and habits in children, including managing fussy eating, encouraging variety, and creating a supportive mealtime environment.
- Understand the impact of nutrition on physical, emotional, and cognitive health, including areas such as allergies, behavior, weight concerns, and active lifestyles.
- Apply practical food safety and feeding strategies from first foods through to family meals, ensuring a safe and nourishing eating journey from birth to adolescence.
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Children who are well-nourished in early childhood show up to 46% higher test scores in literacy and numeracy by age 8, compared to malnourished peers (UNICEF, 2020).
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Fees
This unit is $350 AUD
There are no additional fee's.
There are no additional fee's.
Testimonial
"This course exceeded my expectations! As a first-time parent, I felt overwhelmed by conflicting advice on what and how to feed my baby. The content was well-structured, easy to understand, and referenced. I now feel confident making nutrition decisions and even planning meals for my whole family."
Sarah M
Parent & Early Childhood Educator
Sarah M
Parent & Early Childhood Educator
Pathways from this Unit
Each of the options below include the Early Childhood Nutrition: Birth to Adolescence unit (WCGE08).
You can start with this unit and credit it into any one of the below options, you can gain multiple qualifications.
Call us today on 02 9400 9759 to get started on your dream career.
You can start with this unit and credit it into any one of the below options, you can gain multiple qualifications.
Call us today on 02 9400 9759 to get started on your dream career.
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