In many families, feeding your baby is a difficult problem.
Every parent wants their child to be born a "rice cooker", full of enthusiasm for food, and can have a "rice sweep" every time he eats.
But the reality is that many babies are a "rice scum", when eating, they always need to be chased and fed, coaxed to feed, and there are various demons in the process of eating, as if feeding ta is not rice, but poisonous apples given by the queen.
Parents are sometimes angry and begin to take thunderous measures, either directly dumping the food in front of the child and telling the child that there will be no food to eat later; or scolding the child sharply and forcing the child to eat the rice in the bowl one bite at a time.
The above two methods, no matter which method is only effective at the moment, the children in the back are still going their own way, and they are moving forward on the road of "rice residue".
Long-term tug-of-war, children suffer, parents are more painful.
Why doesn't your baby love to eat?
In the face of a "rice scum" baby who does not like to eat, what should parents do to make him a qualified "rice cooker"?
Before solving this problem, we must first figure out why children do not like to eat. Children don't like to eat, in fact, there are no more than two reasons: not hungry, eating is not interesting.
Eating when you are hungry is human instinct, and children who are not hungry are of course not interested in eating.
What does it mean that eating is not interesting?
This has to start from the behavioral psychology of children, unlike us adults, children's behavior is mainly driven by interest, they will only be enthusiastic about the things they are interested in.
For the "rice scum" baby, in addition to not being hungry, it is likely that eating is not interesting.
Therefore, for the "rice scum" baby who does not like to eat, starving a few meals and forcing him to eat can not make them a qualified "dry rice person".
How to train your baby to become a qualified "rice cooker"?
For "rice dregs" babies who do not like to eat, it is very important to cultivate their interest in eating and increase the driving force of independent eating. Next, I will share a set of "four noes" with my mother, hoping to help everyone improve the eating habits of the "rice scum" baby.
1. Don't give snacks casually
Many parents are worried that the "rice residue" baby is hungry or cannot keep up with nutrition, and will prepare small snacks, fruits or milk for the baby. The baby's stomach capacity is not large, after eating snacks and fruits or drinking two hundred milliliters of milk, can he still eat?
Therefore, it is best not to give the baby snacks or drink milk 2 hours before the meal, so that when it is time to eat, the baby will have an appetite.
2. Don't think your baby is dirty eating
Babies eat on their own, usually get food everywhere, on the head, on the face, on the body, on the chair, on the ground... At this time, many parents can't help but help.
Don't! For babies who have just learned to eat, such a scene is too normal, they build their interest in eating by grabbing food with their hands and playing with food, and in the process, they slowly learn to control the spoon in their hands and feed the food into their mouths.
The child is dirty and washed clean, but if the child loses interest in eating, it is difficult to cultivate again.
3. Do not accompany you when eating
In order to let the "rice scum" baby eat, many parents will play with toys and watch cartoons when the baby eats, so that the baby can eat and play.
With something more fun than eating, where does the baby have the heart to eat well?
4. No mandatory feeding
In the face of "rice scum" babies who do not like to eat, parents are worried that their children will be hungry or unable to keep up with nutrition, and will find ways to feed their children and force their children to eat more.
The child is also rebellious, and the more you force him, the more he may resist.
"Rice residue" babies are not formed in a day, and changing nature is also a long process.
However, as long as parents have a set of solutions that attract the baby's interest and can really practice persistence, I believe that the baby will one day develop good eating habits.