How to Get a Child to Eat

As soon as the child moves from breastfeeding to regular meals, parents face a problem: how to make the child eat? After all, the kid often begins to pick and choose, trying to get adults to make him a menu only from sweets and sweets. And this, as you know, is fraught with a digestive system disorder and beriberi.

And maybe, it is not necessary to puzzle over how to make a child eat? Psychologists say that if a child is forced, then because of some sense of opposition, on the contrary, he will resist. And if you still apply the system of punishments, then there is a chance to fix a negative attitude to food. Especially it concerns those cases when the maturing personality defends its right to establish its "taboo" on any particular type of food.

If people involved in the upbringing of the baby and his feeding respect his preferences and negations of certain products, if the menu of the child includes a variety of dishes, then they rarely have problems with baby food. After all, every product, which suddenly starts to refuse the kid, you can always find a replacement so that the nutrition of the dinner remained at the highest level, so that always in the menu the balance of proteins and carbohydrates, fiber and vitamins was maintained.

And yet, there are ways how to make a child eat! To make it slowly, unobtrusively, and so that the kid thought that he himself had chosen such a good option - with an appetite to eat everything that was prepared for him for lunch or breakfast.

First, children are extremely fond of sitting at a common table with adults, especially when he himself participates in the preparation of this table. So, it is worth attaching it to the preparation of dinner: give a cleaned boiled eggs, put the bread on a plate, sausage or cheese, stir salad or salt the soup during cooking. And then cover the table with a beautiful tablecloth and ask him to help arrange the plates and spread out the spoons. It is unlikely that a child, "little hostess" or "such a good helper", after he "cooked" food and "laid the table", refuses to try his creation.

Secondly, a wonderful method - to buy a son or daughter a special beautiful dish with your favorite cartoons, good, now our industry offers buyers in a huge range.

And thirdly, if you can not eat all the family, you just need to play with it. Children just love all sorts of adventures! So, today we are going to fly on a spaceship! Mom - the captain and sonul - the chief mate of the captain are ready to fly! The flight began. Only the ship is not simple, but magical: it flies from the fuel that its captain and his assistant eat. And if they eat badly, the ship will not have enough fuel to even make one circle around the Earth!

Of course, this method helps with older children who already understand what a spaceship and fuel are. And how to make a child eat, if he is too small for such tales?

It's very simple, because younger kids can think of another fairy tale, something about a bunny who sent "our little girl" a treat from the forest or about a little bird that looks from the twig to the eating girl and rejoices.

And even small children like to pick their own food. That's right from the age of six months to give the kids in the right hand a spoon - let him try to eat himself. Of course, a lot of this way the child does not eat, it should be supplemented during lunch. But then adults will not subsequently have problems, how to teach the child to eat independently.

If the children are two, and during the meal they manage to "feed" the porridge not only with their ears, but with the partner's hair, you can undress them before you give a spoon. Particularly nervous moms can even leave the kitchen, leaving the children alone with a more balanced dad or grandfather with a heightened sense of humor. After the "independent meal", the mother must, of course, feed the children and immediately arrange a light shower for them.

But the problem of "how to teach a child to eat independently" is far from being so difficult than fighting with a bad appetite. In our time, very often there are adolescents with beriberi and dystrophy of varying degrees, but adults who do not know how to hold a spoon in their hands, somehow did not occur.