Hello
to all dear visitors to My Child’s World, there is nothing more
wonderful than giving our children good health as a result of a sound
and healthy diet. But most children make their mothers tired of eating
and prefer foods at the expense of others. This is why we have prepared
for you, all mothers, a set of tips and advice that will help you solve
the issue and ensure good health for your children. Follow the article
with us until the end.
The most important tips for dealing with children who are tired of eating or who prefer a certain food:
One
of the most common things among most mothers is that children prefer a
certain food and make their mothers tired of eating in general.
The most important tips that will help you in resolving the issue:
1.
If the child refuses to eat at the time food is served, there is no
need to scream at him and hit him, or chase him all day with a plate and
a spoon and order him to eat. This makes the child associate eating
with the stress you cause him, so he hates eating even more.
2.
Food must have times in which it is served. If the child refuses to eat
at the specified time, take the food from him in the utmost calm and do
not make him feel guilty. If he asks for food afterward, tell him that
there is a time for the second meal and that you can compensate him with
a cup of milk, fresh juice, or potatoes in the morning. The oven, for
example.
3.
When you offer a new food, let him smell it, touch it, and play with
it. Do not stand on his head and command him to eat. Let him come to
terms with the meal and deal with it. If he rejects it, this does not
mean at all that you should not serve it again, just for a while and
present it again in a different way.
4.
If you cook a meal and your child rejects it, do not cook food intended
for him. We are not in a restaurant and the food that is there will be
eaten by him. This is so that you do not instill in his mind the idea
that he is actually different, and you must oblige him to be seated at
the eating table the entire time of eating, even if he refuses to eat (
But without nervousness.)
5.
Ask him for help when purifying and cleaning vegetables and fruits,
when washing them, and when putting them in the refrigerator. In the
meantime, talk to him about the benefits of vegetables and fruits for
his growth and health. Ask him to prepare the eating table.
6.
The eating session must be enjoyable for him. This means we allocate
for him a colored plate, a spoon, a brush, and a cup of colors...and
also prepare for him a few things that he likes at the beginning (of
course, they will be prepared at home) so that he can dip the vegetables
in it that he cannot eat. Its taste.
7.
You must be a role model for him in eating, just as you are a role
model for him in behavior, and as much as possible, all of your food
should be healthy, as you will find him subconsciously imitating you.
8.
It is forbidden to turn on the television or any electronic devices
while eating, and the focus must be on eating only, also to avoid
advertisements for sweets that could spoil his appetite and make him
stop eating.
9.
When you want to reward him for something good he did, the reward
should not be sweets because this sends messages to the child’s brain
that these sweets are the best food ever, which increases his desire for
them. We are not saying to ban sweets completely, but it is possible
to serve them one or two days a week.
It
is not easy and requires patience, and you will not achieve results
overnight, but difficult tasks are always the fate of heroes. And you,
mother, are a hero.
Guidelines for all mothers to ensure good health for their children:
1. Give the child the new meal gradually, for example today one spoon, tomorrow two spoons, and so on.
2. If you want to give the child a new food, give it to him when he is hungry so that he does not reject it.
3.
Do not give the child more than one new food per day until you have
observed the child’s condition well (such as allergies, diarrhea, bean
anemia...).
4.
Take into account giving the child the necessary amount of protein in
milk, eggs, meat, and fish, because it has been scientifically proven
that a child who does not get enough protein, especially from his birth
until the end of his second year, will have his mental development
affected to a great degree, and his IQ may be lower than that of his
peers of the same age and at this time. The condition makes you wonder
why, and at this time no treatment for the condition is effective.
5.
You should avoid giving the child watermelon, cantaloupe, mango, and
cucumber as much as possible, because these foods often cause diarrhea
and intestinal upset in the child.
6. If the child hates or rejects a type of food, prevent him from it for a week or more, then give it to him again.
7. Milk can be used in its normal concentration, starting from the age of one year, after boiling it well.
8. Breastfeeding can be ended after the child turns one year old and given milk instead.
9.
It is important that our children drink enough water during the day.
It is advisable to accustom them to sweetened drinks from the age of
infancy. Because it is full of sugars, it is not recommended to eat a
lot of it. It is also important to get them used to drinking juices
from a cup because they tend to drink directly from the bottle.
10.
Let us all ensure that our children eat vegetable fats and avoid animal
fats as much as possible. We can enrich our children’s meals with
peanut butter, almonds, and olive oil.
11.
Let us replace fried foods with baked and cooked foods. It is natural
for our children to prefer eating crispy and fried foods, but they are
saturated with oil, and this is harmful to them.
12.
Our children, without realizing it or from us, imitate us and take us
as a role model for them, so we must be careful to eat fatty foods.
13.
Try to delay your children’s introduction to sweets as much as
possible. You will realize this as you grow older and older.
14.
It is very important that we sit down to eat around the table together
with our children, so that we can give them good eating habits. We
should not allow them to eat while watching TV programs or while
playing, as eating in this way may not stem from hunger, but rather
happens automatically and causes obesity.
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