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When the baby is 6 months old, he begins to add complementary foods, and in order to digest them well, the food is very delicate.
The family bought all kinds of juicers, food blenders, and most of the food was broken and mashed. Vegetable puree, juice, nutritious rice paste, egg soup...
Children often eat almost all mushy foods.
Later, when the child was fed larger and harder food, she found that she directly spit it out.
What's going on?
Eating soft foods regularly can degrade your chewing ability
6 months is the critical period for exercising chewing ability, so it is necessary to give children a good complementary food.
If the feeding is too refined, the food is too soft, the child eats effortlessly, does not need the coordination of teeth, tongue and mouth, chewing ability can not be exercised, and the development of the mouth and teeth will be delayed.
The child often eats liquid food, and once adapted, he is not willing to chew it laboriously, and when she is given a large piece of food, she will refuse.
The deterioration of chewing ability directly affects language development
You can try that when we eat, the tongue, teeth, palate, facial muscles, and the entire mouth are in harmony.
If the ability to chew is not exercised, the coordination and flexibility of the entire oral and facial muscles will be affected.
When children learn to pronounce words, they need to coordinate their lips, tongue, jaw, and oral muscles.
Therefore, the child's language development is slow, which is closely related to the lack of exercise in chewing ability.
When children develop their language, what should they pay attention to?
The exercise of chewing ability should keep up with the rhythm of children's growth, and gradually increase the "difficulty" of complementary foods.
For example, when a child is seven or eight months old, he mainly relies on his tongue to crush food, and the paste-like food can gradually be excessive to the more cooked porridge and noodles.
Semi-solid foods that are soft but need to be bitten and chewed can wait for one year old, and then add them after the baby's teeth gradually grow out, such as rice, buns, wontons, etc.
Also note.
During the child's language development, even if he can't speak, he should interact and chat more.
To establish an emotional connection with children, body language, eye contact, language expression, none of them can be less.
Even if he can't speak yet, he can feel it keenly when you say it to him, the emotions that are conveyed in your language.
Look into his eyes, slow down, use a gentle and slightly exaggerated tone and tone, easy to attract his attention, what you say, he will be more interested in imitating.
Don't express it for him, let the child speak out for himself.
Some children point their fingers to something, or simply say a word "water", "rice", etc., parents immediately understand his meaning, give water or rice, and then the child habitually expresses his wishes in a simple way.
So, instead of saying "Are you going to drink water?", "Are you going to eat?", etc., encourage him to say the full meaning himself.
If the child does not like to talk, you can play some nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes on the TV or computer.
The rich picture is easy to attract his attention, the sense of rhythm is easy to bring him into it, and the catchy lyrics are convenient for him to imitate.
If your child can follow along, you can encourage him in time by hugging or smiling.
Give your child a free and relaxed speaking environment.
If he's not quite clear, don't correct him right away.
Encouraging him to speak out first is the goal, don't force him to speak or let him imitate others.
Choose the right children's picture book and tell stories to your children.
Many parents have such an experience, on a specific occasion, the child coldly said something, people can't help but be funny or surprised.
You think you never taught him, you don't know how he learned it.
In fact, in the process of watching cartoons, listening to stories, and listening to adult conversations, children will have an impression of some words and expressions.
So, it's really important to show the child what he hears.
For children with slightly stronger abilities, after telling a short and interesting story, you can let him tell it in his own words and exercise his language skills.