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How to cultivate children's good eating habits

BY Berton Gladstone 2020-05-08

The good or bad eating habits of children are largely caused by parents. Children have poor eating habits (partial eating, picky eating, inadequate eating), and parents should bear the main responsibility. Parents are the source of the problem. Parents should consciously guide their good eating habits from a very young age. What is guidance? What to force to eat or not to eat is not guidance. Guidance includes demonstration, persuasion, and clever workmanship. The following suggestions may be helpful:

   1. Parents should lead by example, and their diet should be balanced first. A partial eclipse parent can easily bring out a partial eclipse child. For example, if parents never drink milk, this gives the child a hint not to drink milk, and the child is unwilling to drink milk. Another example is a mother who never eats meat. Her method of cooking meat and her attitude towards meat will also directly affect the children''s eating of meat. Therefore, if you want to let your child eat something, parents should first eat it, and eat with the child, even if it is just pretending.

   2. Use alternative methods to satisfy children’s desire for certain foods. Children''s preferences for certain foods are almost natural, and it is difficult to explain why. This is the child''s right. Parents must first respect the child''s right to choose food, even for those that are not healthy, categorically refuse or refuse to buy Are undesirable. A feasible solution is "substitution". For example, your child especially likes to eat small foods. In the supermarket, you can advise him to buy another one, such as chocolate or seaweed. For another example, if the child wants to drink, then you can persuade him not to buy colorful drinks, instead of juice drinks or yogurt Beverages; for example, if your child especially loves ice cream, then you can buy him some brands of hygienic and quality products produced by large factories. In this way, the child''s desire for snacks is satisfied, and those bad foods are avoided. Over the long term, the child''s interest in those bad foods will also change.

   3. Parents provide children with as much healthy food as possible, and then let him choose for himself. Regarding what to eat and what not to eat, parents should not make decisions for their children, and do not always tell children that they should eat this or not. Many children do not like parents to preach, but they will have rebellious psychology. For example, if your child doesn’t like pork, then you can make beef, lamb, chicken, fish and seafood; for example, if your child doesn’t like milk, you can drink other brands of milk, yogurt, milk powder, and goat milk .

   4. Let the children eat for themselves, and parents should never feed or feed. Many parents have this idea: let the children eat the food first, which is more reassuring. Such an approach can only make the situation worse. The more children do not like to eat, the more difficult it is to concentrate when eating. It is inevitable to feed while playing. Relying on parent feeding is impossible to feed the child''s nutrition, which is often worse. So we must first make up our minds: resolutely not feed, let him eat. Eating and survival are the instincts of all living things, just like a child will cry when he is born. This does not require training or training. Naturally, it will be the same as eating. You don’t feed. Of course, he will eat by himself. There are very few people. Keep good food and drink, starve yourself-the exception is anorexia.

   5. Pay attention to cooking techniques, such as vegetables, which should be cut finely, the taste of cooking should be suitable for children, and the appearance should be more beautiful and attractive.

   6. Let the children eat with the parents, and don’t let the children eat alone.

   7. Don’t treat certain foods such as snacks, fast food, etc. as a means to reward or punish children.

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