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Children who are finicky eaters: The most important tips for dealing with them to ensure good health for them:

 

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.