During the baby's growth and development, the body needs the various nutrients contained in the food as its energy raw materials. Therefore, it is not only necessary to rationally allocate diets suitable for the baby's age, but also to cultivate the baby's good eating habits and abilities.
( _ ) What good eating habits and abilities should be developed in your baby?
Guide your baby's enthusiasm for eating on time and make him show great interest in eating.
From infancy, the baby should have a fixed seat when eating, and be careful not to change the seat position.
Concentrate, chew slowly, regularly and quantitatively, quietly eat your own portion of food, not eat while playing, nor watching TV while eating.
Like to eat a variety of food, not partial to food, not picky eaters.
Chew food with your lips closed, don't make a "click" sound, and don't let others see the food in your mouth.
Swallow the last bite of food before leaving the table, talking or going to bed without food.
Pay attention to cleanliness when eating, eat the last bit of food in the bowl, do not develop the bad habit of leftover meals, spill rice and soup, parents should help wipe it in time.
Drink boiled water often, not raw water.
Don't pick up dirty things on the ground to eat.
In terms of eating ability, attention should be paid to gradually cultivating the baby's ability to use tableware correctly and eat independently. include:
When you are seven or eight months old, you can hold a bowl with one hand and eat with a spoon in the other hand (you don't need to emphasize the spoon and chopsticks in your right hand, you should cultivate the ability of your baby to use spoons and chopsticks, scissors, etc., which is very beneficial to the intelligent development of the left and right hemispheres of the brain).
After the age of 3, you can learn to use chopsticks, wash your hands, and wipe your mouth.
Around the age of 3, he can skillfully use spoons and chopsticks, eat clean and sharply, and begin to learn to assist parents in setting up dishes and chopsticks, and put their own bowls, chopsticks and chairs after eating.
Babies of any age should cultivate the correct posture of eating, master the language related to eating, such as "slow chewing", the names of various tableware, the names of meals, etc.
Keep your baby quiet before eating and maintain a relaxed and pleasant mood. The environment for eating should also be quiet and tidy. Eat on time and allow the stomach to secrete digestive juices normally. Never let your baby get overly excited or tired before meals, and don't scold your baby before meals. Do not eat candy, ice cream and other cold drinks within an hour before meals, and do not drink a lot of boiled water, so as not to dilute the gastric juice, affect the normal secretion of gastric juice, and cause the baby's appetite to decrease.
Pay attention to the color, aroma, taste and shape of the meal, often change the pattern, you should arrange a 1-week recipe to avoid monotony and tastelessness. Meals that are too hot or too cold will cause the baby to be disgusted and refuse to eat, and attention should be paid to adjusting the heat and cold of the food with reference to the temperature to enhance the baby's appetite.
After the baby is 2 years old, you can intentionally use fairy tales, metaphors, demonstrations and other methods to guide the baby to understand the benefits of food, such as "pork liver is really delicious, eat more pork liver eyes will be shiny, lips will be red" "eat more vegetables, small face will look like red apples" This fosters your baby's interest in a variety of foods. If the baby is picky and anorexia, for foods that you don't like to eat, you must change your tricks. You can eat this food in small amounts at first, and then gradually increase it later.
If the baby loses his temper and is willful, do not use candy, biscuits and other foods to alleviate the contradiction and transfer the unreasonable requirements of the baby, so as not to form the habit of eating snacks. When eating, it is even more difficult to accommodate the baby's problem of eating and playing. When the baby is not eating well, you can adopt a dismissive attitude, stick to it, and the baby will know that he is not interesting and "truce".
Babies around the age of 3 are very motivated to learn, but due to limited ability, mistakes such as overturning dishes during meals and spilling meals on the table and the ground will continue to appear. Parents should patiently teach the baby to use the correct use of tableware, even if the hands, face, clothes are dirty, but also tirelessly help to wipe clean in time, and encourage the baby's small progress, so that the baby always maintains a strong enthusiasm for learning. It must not be roughly handled, let alone try to save trouble, do things instead of depriving the baby of the opportunity to learn to eat on his own, which will affect the development of the baby's eating habits and ability.
Parents should pay attention to the immeasurable subtle impact of their words and deeds on their babies. When talking or eating at the table, parents try not to have suggestive language and actions, so as not to form bad habits in the baby's diet. For example, the mother does not like to eat pork liver, so that the baby will perceive it, and will do as the mother says and acts, which will inevitably form a bad habit of picky eating.
Parents should also keep abreast of the reasons for the baby's refusal or loss of appetite, and find ways to ensure that the baby gets enough food nutrition.
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