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Children in the 80s rarely had picky eaters, because there were many children in the family, and parents did not have time to stare at their children every day, make good meals, and the children had to eat themselves.
And now the child is the "6 1" model, there are 6 adults in the family, grandparents, grandparents and parents take care of a child. Therefore, it is taken care of meticulously, and even some children have to be fed by adults when they are three years old, and children who are fed by grandparents from a young age are more likely to be picky eaters!
Because the child feels that eating is not my own business at all, eating is the business of my grandparents and parents, they want to coax me to eat, and even I can ask them, if you want me to eat, you have to buy what toys, which will lead to the child has no interest in the food itself!
Therefore, no matter how much parents love their children, they must also let him learn to eat independently from an early age!
Babies over 8 months old should practice eating independently, don't wait for your child to grow up to be picky and regret it.
The 8-month-old child has learned to crawl in big movements, so his body will become more flexible, and in terms of fine movements, the child's 10 fingers will also begin to become more flexible, and the index finger and thumb can pinch things.
And the child is also particularly interested in eating by himself, and when his mother takes his tableware, his hands want to grab the tableware.
Parents should go with the flow and practice letting their children eat independently after their children are 8 months old.
After your baby is eight months old, how do you train your child to eat on his own? Parents should be clear
★ Ask your child to receive the spoon
When the child has just added complementary food, it is recommended that parents buy two spoons, one spoon will be used to feed the child complementary food, and the other is almost the same spoon can be used for the child to make a toy, so that the child can master the spoon with his fingers more skillfully.
★ Prepare finger food
At the age of 8 months, the child prepares some apples cut into strips, pears or torn into strips of steamed buns, or small noodles, and lets the children eat them with their hands.
When the child grabs the food, he is actually as happy as playing with toys, his fingers take the food and then send the food to the mouth, this process is a breeze for us adults, but for children whose brain development is not yet mature, it is not an easy task.
The child's eyes should be able to see the food, reach to the food seen by the eyes, which requires the command and coordination of the brain, and the fine movement of the fingers after getting the food must be firmly grasped by the physical object, and then the food is sent to the mouth steadily, which needs the child's fine movements, the need is the hand-eye coordination ability, and the need is the strength of the child's arm!
Let the child grab the food to eat, in fact, is a very good exercise, exercise the child's hand strength, exercise the child's brain, let the child be smarter.
★ Let the child eat at the same table as the adults
Children learn mainly through imitation, when children eat with adults, see adults eating, use chopsticks to put food into the mouth to chew, children will also learn to use his small spoon or spoon to take food into the mouth to chew, so that children can imitate the adult's way of eating.
Slowly know that eating should be put into the mouth to chew, and then swallow slowly, and then repeat the practice of several times a day, so that children can better exercise their chewing ability and swallowing ability, and the child's chewing ability will also make the child chew muscles and mouth more flexible, but also help children learn to speak after one year old, bite words more clearly.
Generally, children start to grab things to eat at 8 months, and when the child is 10 months and 11 months old, you can let the child take his own special tableware to eat.
Parents do these few things well, which is more conducive to children eating on their own and stimulating brain development
Buy the right cutlery for your child
Children's tableware must be dedicated, because children are relatively small, to buy smaller tableware.
And the child's action when eating is not accurate enough, may poke themselves, so buy some softer for the child, it is not easy to poke their own tableware, the child's hands and feet are not very flexible, easy to fall into the bowl, so the bowl bought for the child is not easy to break.
Of course, in addition to not being easy to break, be sure to buy safe tableware without some chemical residue.
Not afraid of getting dirty
Children just learn to eat, it is easy to make their faces full of rice, or scatter rice all over the ground, which is the inevitable process of children learning to eat.
Parents can put a bib around their child's clothes, spread a layer of newspaper on the floor or lay a layer of things, so that they don't have to clean up so much trouble.
To know that our children can not learn to walk to avoid wrestling, children learn to eat can not avoid dropping rice and vegetables, this is a necessary process.
Make appropriate complementary foods for your child
Make finger food for your child at 8 months, suitable for food that your child holds in your hand, in addition to being suitable for your child, you should also pay attention to meeting your child's digestive ability and meeting your child's nutritional needs.
The production of children's complementary foods is a science, and mothers who do not do well may easily lead to children eating complementary foods allergies, or eat constipation and diarrhea, or even children eat complementary foods and grow slower and slower.
It is recommended that mothers still follow the advice of experts and buy a copy of "What to Eat Supplementary Food Every Week" written by Liu Changwei, a professional child nutritionist.
This book is divided into age groups to make complementary foods for children, such as children at 9 months, it is recommended that you can cook corn sweet potato soft noodles, yellow corn can provide children with carotene and chlorophyll, and the dietary fiber in sweet potatoes can avoid constipation of children, noodles supplement the moon, children can grab and eat or take a spoon to eat.
There are more than two hundred recipes in this book, and each complementary food has a specific preparation method, cooking time, difficulty, and what kind of nutrition can be added to the child after eating.
As long as the mother chooses according to the child's age, she can make complementary foods with full color and flavor for the child to eat, so that the child wants to eat at a glance, and the child eats fragrantly, grows taller and smarter.
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