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Some time ago, at the wedding banquet of an old classmate, a 2-year-old child, eating that is called a sad person, not to look at the east and west, or grandma does not feed and do not eat, eat two bites and run out to play. Grandma coaxed the "little ancestor" back to the table and sat down, so she turned on coaxing, chasing, scolding, and even playing "feeding mode".
"Attentive" grandmothers, when feeding their grandchildren, also feed food into their mouths from time to time, chew it up, and then feed it to their children. When reminded of "unhygienic" by the people at the same table, the grandmother said with an embarrassed face: "The child is born prematurely, and the digestive function is not good, which can help the child swallow and digest better."
Looking around at the elderly around them, there are many elderly people like this grandmother who feed their grandchildren, and some people on the Internet call this "Chinese-style feeding".
In Pino's view, this kind of "Chinese-style feeding" is not only unhygienic, but also has no benefit to the baby's body, but also may cause harm to the baby.
01 Grandma fed this, and the child was taken to the hospital
Friends' children are dangdang, about 2 years old, usually brought by grandma. Grandma is quite fond of Dangdang, and she usually feeds at meals.
For a while, when the stomach was a little uncomfortable, the old man was distressed about the grandson, thinking that the child's stomach might be uncomfortable, and the things he ate were not easy to digest. Therefore, each meal was directly chewed up for the child to eat, and after the friend learned about it, he obstructed it many times, saying that it was unhygienic.
But Grandma said that her friend was "poor and exquisite" and "disliked her", and said that her friends were raised in this way. The friend was helpless, so he only had the child's grandmother.
Who knows, this is really an accident, the child suddenly has blood in the stool, and vomited blood, the family is scared, feel that sending the child to the hospital, fortunately sent in time, the child is not a big problem.
The child's mother asked the doctor why this was so, and the doctor said that the child was infected with Helicobacter pylori, and should pay attention to hygiene after returning home, especially the entrance, otherwise the child's spleen and stomach are easily injured.
Hearing the doctor say this, the grandmother on the side also felt guilty, did not expect that she was well-intentioned to do bad things, distressed that the grandson was not digesting well, so she thought of chewing and feeding the child, but unexpectedly hurt the child, hurt the child's spleen and stomach.
After Pino's mother heard about it, she went home to check the relevant information and found that many bacteria and viruses in the old population would be transmitted to the children through saliva like when they were fed by grandma, such as tooth decay bacteria, Helicobacter pylori, herpes virus, etc. If the food is chewed up and fed to the child, it will increase the probability of the child getting sick.
In fact, for a 2-year-old child, letting him chew his own meals not only helps to grow teeth and promote oral development, but also helps children digest better.
Therefore, Pino's mother advised every grandparent and grandparent who help to bring the baby, and never chew up the food to feed the child. At the same time, we must seize the golden period of the baby's independent eating, cultivate the child's habit of eating independently from an early age, and will not chase the child to feed in the future.
02 Seize the golden period of independent eating and exercise children's ability to eat independently
Catch the signal that your child is eating on their own
In fact, every child has the will to eat on their own, and mothers will find out as long as they observe carefully. When the daughter was about 8 months old, she suddenly had a "dislike" of the food she used to love to eat, but she was particularly interested in adult meals, and even imitated adults eating. At that time, Pino's mother felt that the golden period for training her daughter to eat independently had come.
Generally speaking, after the child reaches about 8 months, he will have the will to eat by himself, although he cannot express it, but he will inform his parents through some behaviors and actions, and adults must learn to capture.
Like what:
Seeing adults eating, children will come to catch;
After getting something, the child will put it in his mouth by himself;
Will imitate the action of adults eating, the mouth makes a bar chirping sound;
Interested in chopsticks, will use chopsticks to poke food.
When parents observe that their children have these behaviors, they can try to train their children to eat independently.
The food that the child eats on his own and prepares it in this way
When the child enters the period of independent eating, what the mother has to do is to prepare a variety of nutritious and delicious complementary foods for the child.
Speaking of complementary food, the husband was particularly frustrated at that time, and took pains to prepare complementary food for his daughter, but the daughter did not appreciate it, did not give any face, and really did not want to eat a bite.
Fortunately, the husband belongs to the more defeated and courageous people, a kind of complementary food daughter does not eat, he prepares a variety of complementary food, thinking that there is always a kind of she loves to eat.
It turns out that the husband's "combat method" is right, when a series of brightly colored and different complementary foods are placed in front of the child, the child will eat some.
In addition, when mothers prepare complementary foods, they can prepare some finger-type complementary foods in a targeted manner, which helps to meet their children's hands-on wishes.
After all, children who have not yet reached the age of 1 have a weak grasping ability in their hands, and when they cannot afford to eat more food, they will feel frustrated. However, if the food prepared by the mother is easy to grasp, it will greatly enhance the child's desire to eat.
03 Cultivate 4 independent eating habits and let the baby eat obediently
Establish a sense of ritual for your child to eat
After the daughter entered the golden period of independent eating, the husband prepared a special set of tableware for the daughter, and whenever the adults ate, the daughter would also sit at her own table, learn the way her parents looked, and try to eat by herself.
It is worth noting that when a family sits at a table to eat, parents must not eat while playing with mobile phones and watching TV. Create a sense of ritual for your child to "concentrate on eating" and let your baby know that eating requires concentration.
When feeding your child, don't play while feeding
Although children have begun to try to eat independently, it is inevitable that adults will be fed three meals a day, and children will be small and sit and eat without rules and regulations. At this time, adults have to establish "rules" for children, eating must sit at the table, can not eat a bite of food and run around.
Especially for families where the elderly take care of their children, they must pay attention to this, as far as possible, do not chase and feed the children, and do not feed while playing, otherwise it will be difficult for the baby to eat independently.
It is very important to cultivate good eating habits in children from an early age, and once the wrong habits are formed, it is difficult to correct them later.
Don't give your child an "after-meal reward"
Sometimes my daughter didn't eat seriously or had no appetite, and Grandma would say to her, "Pino, after eating, Grandma will take you to the playground; if you don't eat, you can't go to the playground in the afternoon."
When the child hears that he wants to go to the playground, he will quickly cope with the meal, but after eating several times, he will have stomach pain, and over time, he will be prone to indigestion.
Children, like adults, may not be interested in the food in front of them, so they have no appetite and do not want to eat. At this time, parents can try to enrich the dishes and make some brightly colored and beautiful foods, perhaps the child loves to eat.
Don't bother, let the child eat on his own
When my daughter first learned to eat, every meal was a breakdown, and when she ate noodles, her head was full and her face was full; when she ate rice, the rice scum was all over the ground, and Grandma always couldn't help but start feeding for her.
In fact, for the baby, just start to learn to eat, the occurrence of these scenes is normal, the parents of the Buddhist system is a little better, after all, eating chaotic, eating slowly, adults have a little patience, you can lay a tablecloth under the table, eat and take away is also convenient.
In short, if you want your baby to learn to eat independently and eat well, adults should intervene less and be more patient, so that children may not let you chase and feed in the future.