For many parents, feeding their children is not an easy task, and some children still have picky eating, so parents are more worried, afraid that their children lack the nutrition needed for growth, affecting the healthy growth of children.
For the situation that the child does not eat well, some parents may wonder if the child has some disease, which is caused by it. In fact, sometimes children have no appetite and do not eat well, perhaps simply because parents have entered the following four misunderstandings:
01
Make your child feel that eating is a burden
When parents feed their children, if the children do not obediently eat, some parents may take inappropriate measures.
For example, blindly teaching children, or comparing children with other people's children, and even scolding children, and so on, not only will not improve the status quo of children not eating well, but also may affect the child's psychology, so that children feel that eating is a stressful and burdensome thing.
When children develop this mentality, they are even less likely to eat well.
The correct approach should be for parents to create a good eating environment for their children, so that children have a relaxed and happy mood, so that they will be willing to eat obediently and no longer resist the matter of eating.
02
The diet is monolithic and lacks variation
Some parents have done it with a strong focus on nutrition, but the daily recipes are single and lack variation.
If it is a day or two, the child will not be tired, but if it is long-term, the child will definitely be tired of eating, so naturally there is no appetite and is not willing to eat well.
Therefore, in addition to paying attention to nutrition, parents also need to change the pattern of cooking for their children, so as to enhance their children's appetite and improve their children's bad habits of picky eating.
03
Don't let your child eat by themselves
In fact, after one year old, children can already hold a spoon with their hands to send rice to their mouths, but because the child's hands-on ability is still relatively weak, it often happens to spill the rice, or get it on the clothes, and finally the parents have to clean up, so in order to save worry and effort, parents do not let the children practice eating by themselves, insisting on feeding their children.
In fact, this practice is incorrect, because if you do this, not only can not let the child feel the pleasure of eating, but also deprive the child of the opportunity to practice, which is not conducive to the child's future growth.
The correct approach should be to let the child learn to eat by himself, if the parents are still not at ease, you can prepare two sets of utensils, one set for the child to use, the other set of parents to spare, and then let the child eat by himself, parents at the same time feed.
04
There is no control over the amount of snacks your child has
Some parents feel that snacks are junk food, so it is forbidden for children to eat snacks, but some parents think that it is okay to give their children a moderate amount of snacks.
In fact, if it is a healthy snack, it is possible to give the child some food without affecting the child's normal eating, but if it affects the child's diet, it needs to be paid attention to by parents.
For example, the child always eats a lot of snacks before the meal, and when it is time to eat, the child has no appetite and says that he is full.
If this situation occurs frequently, parents need to control the amount of snacks their children eat before meals to improve the situation that children have no appetite for eating.