If you ask many parents the most worried questions, the problem of children's eating habits will definitely cause them a headache. So how to solve this problem? The answer is to help children develop healthy eating habits from an early age.
Healthy eating habits start with the right cognition
In the TV series "An Jia", Aunt Xu said to Fang Xiangjin: "We must have a reverence for food." "Children's eating habits also need to start with reverence for food.
Reverence is an attitude of respect that should be maintained for every food.
As the family conditions get better and better, the child is completely unfamiliar with how food is produced, so the following ways can be used to help the child.
Let your child know the type and name of the food
Ask your child the name of the food through some funny pictures to guide them to observe the shape and color. You can also organize some small activities: such as food playing, one person playing one person guessing, going on stage to talk about the most delicious fruits and vegetables that have ever been eaten.
When your baby is young, you can buy him some food model toys, and parents can also tell him what it is. These small activities can greatly arouse children's curiosity about food.
A child who is full of good feelings for food will have a happy mood when eating.
Learn what benefits healthy food can bring to the body
Popularize some simple nutritional knowledge for children, such as what nutrition vegetables can bring to the body, which organs are helpful, what is the nutrition of fruits, and how to make the body. What kind of reaction does the body produce if it lacks these nutrients?
Through some question-and-answer methods, there are also some humanoid props to let children know that our bodies need the help of healthy food.
Let children know the preciousness of food through some picture books or documentaries
Let the child know where the food comes from, what process it has gone through, sowing seeds, fertilizing, etc., how much effort people have put in to get precious food, and cultivate the quality of saving and not wasting.
Develop good eating habits
If the above is some ideological foreshadowing, then the following is the specific eating habits that children need to develop.
Pay attention to your eating habits
Some children were very excited when they heard "eating" and rushed over, not caring that they had just played with sand or mud with their hands. The formation of a habit needs to be carefully guided by parents and teachers, and dietary hygiene habits can start from the most basic point of "washing hands before eating and after going to the toilet".
When guiding children, you can use some heuristic questioning methods,
"Kids, what do we need to do before we eat?"
"Is there any way to beat the bacteria away?"
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Some picture books about dietary hygiene, some fun games can drive children to think and act.
Eat independently on your own
Some parents are too anxious about their children's nutrition problems, always worried that their children are not full, so on the issue of eating, parents will be too doting.
Parents should establish a correct feeding concept - "encourage children to do what they can do", and consciously train their children's ability to eat independently.
Children do not like to eat, not necessarily really bad appetite, or naughty, but in the long-term feeding process, parents deprive children of the pleasure of exploring food and doing it themselves.
Yuyu children can eat independently at the age of 1, and whenever their mother says, "Children, eat." She would be very happy to run to wash her hands and sit on top of her own little chair.
She had such a keen interest in eating because when she was five or six months old, her mother would give her a large plate with some food she could eat and let her explore on her own. Because of this habit, Rain and Rain also develop healthier than children of the same age.
Worrying about something turns worrying into a pleasure and allowing children to find answers.
Eat carefully and attentively
A kindergarten parent said that the child does not eat without TV, sometimes talk about conditions, eat a bite of food and play a minute mobile phone, he feels that it is too difficult for the child to eat well.
The formation of this behavior is mostly because parents ignore the requirements for children's eating habits in order to meet the purpose of letting children eat, and in the long run, children will eat as a condition for controlling parents to meet their own.
When guiding children to focus on eating, it is necessary to create a good eating scene, such as turning off the TV, putting down the mobile phone, and eating carefully at the table together, so that the meal has a sense of ceremony.
Have regular eating habits
Children's physical development is inseparable from regular eating habits, such as eating breakfast, timing and quantitation.
Eating on time helps your child absorb nutrients and promotes your child's physical development.
Many families also have parents who sleep late and do not eat breakfast, or eat the last meal without eating the next meal, and as a result, children have formed such a habit.
If you want to cultivate children's regular eating habits, you need parents to lead by example.
Healthy eating habits are the foundation of a child's physical development. The Northern Song Dynasty literary scholar Ouyang Xiu wrote in the "Chen Gong Shinto Inscription": "It is better to lead people with orders than to be the first." Instead of admonishing a child on what to do, lead by example and be an example he is willing to emulate!