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15 Ways to Solve the Problem of Children Refusing to Eat Added Food
For children, added food is a kind of fresh thing. Sometimes children push food outside with tongue, maybe they are ignorant of how to swallow the food. However, if the food kept in mouth is not swallowed, maybe the child is not hungry. Sometimes because a child's personality is so warm that he eats things slowly. That children crying and eating nonthing may be with body comfortlessness or wanting to sleep with tiredness, or children have had some unhappy experience on the food. For example, they have been scalded or forced to fed and so on. When playing in great form, children are fed solid food, because of this, children don't eat things. Sometimes children spit out not long time after eating, maybe the quantity is too much or the feeding speed is too rapid, or they have exguisite movement when they just finishes feeding.
Furthermore, with child growing little by little, his appetite will letdown. And he starts to be curious on things around, is often attracted by them that they can't attend to take food. Their love and hate of food is also establishing slowly, they starts to appear the resisting heart. When some parents make added food, transformation of food is too little, or it is mainly made according to the taste of grwon-ups thus they neglect the taste of child, who will naturely doesn't like to eat them. Some attending persons like to feed the child biscuits, but eating too much sock during dinners will aslo affect the appetite of dinner.
The following introdues 15 ways to solve the problem of a child refusing added food:
1. Demonstrate how to chew food
When children push food outside with his tongue, you can demonstate him to watch how to chew the food to swallow it. You might as well try it for several times more, giving him more learning chance.
2. Don't feed him too much or too fast
Feed according to the appetite of child. The feeding speed shouldn't be too fast. After feeding the child food, you should let him have a rest. Don't make exguisite movement, and don't nurse him at once.
3. Taste all kinds of new flavors
Eating the same food often will spoil the child's appetite. Diversification of diet can stimulate the child appetite. Adding new stuff in food which the child originally like to eat, with weight and species both added from little to much, can increase the species of food ingesting and find out more food that the child like to eat. Food or cooking ways that child dislikes should reduce the supplying quantity and times. However, you should gradually increase the species of added food, making child learn to accept it, and cultivate good habit of unchoosy in food, and balanceably ingest all kinds of food to help the child development and growh.
4. Change cooking ways
Child hating some food sometimes is not because its taste, but it's cooking ways. For example, they like food that has the biting and chawing feelings, dislike apple butter after teeth grows out. You might as well change it into apple pieces. Food that has fresh color can promote appetite of the child. Too cold or hot food also make the child feel afraid. Furthermore, the taste is inadvisable to be too strong and avoid provocative food. Cutting ways of food should be easy for child to enter the mouth. Shapes must change often to improve child's interest.
5. Pay attention to the quality and quantity of nosh
Helt of the nosh cannot be too much, its time cann't be too close to chief meal, avoiding that they can't take in chief meal. You should choose nutritive food as nosh, chidren shouldn't eat junk food that is too sweat or oiled and so on.
6. Think much of the child independency
Six month after his birth, the child gradually wants dinning by himself. You should encourage him to take in food with soup spoon by himself, provide him the studying chance. Also you can spread newspaper on the floor that convenient to tidy the situation after failure. Children like to hold something to eat. You can make food that is easy to hold with hands. It can satisfy the child's desire and also can improve appetite.
7. Fornotice him when ten minutes before serving a meal
While playing happly, if the child is interrupted suddenly, he will appear mind of amination, resist and refusion. Therefore, even if he is a one-year-old chld, you should tell him beforehand what is about to do. Such as, " you should wash hands and have meal ten minutes later."
8. Prepare a set of enfant dishware
Fill dock-glass and bowl with food, children will have pressure and thus affect his appetite. Keen-edged fork and cracky dishware is not suitable for children to use, for fear that suddenness happens. Enfant dishwares sold in the market have lovely pictures and fresh colors, which can improve the child's appetite. Sometimes, provide meals for child using the ways of picnic or lunch box.
9. Inadvisable to train the baby table amenity
Parents shouldn't be so anxious to teach the child as little gentleman or gentlewoman that they put forward some reasonless amenity requirements. For example, must use chopsticks, don't drop the soup out when drinking soup, this will make child so depressed that affects his appetite.
10. Don't size up food before children
Children can imitate actions of the grown-up, so you shouldn't be choosy in food or size up stand or fall of food before children, for fear that children have the root of choosy in food.
11. Make use of accompanier strength to encourage him take food
The child should eat three meals on the table with family or let him have dinner with neighbourhood friends or partners. Changing environment and atmosphere of taking food can improve appetite, or imitate eating things from other friends, using the strength of accompaniers to encourage him to take food.
12. Adjust life work and rest
Making child go outdoors more often can improve appetite, but don't do fury movement before and after meals to avoid affecting appetite.
13. Keep good mood of taking food
If sometimes it appears the situation that child still doesn't feel hungry at meal time, don't force him to eat. Because forcing child to eat meals too often or chiding child when eating will make him fell that eating meals is a disgusting thing.
14. Taste it again after an interval of time
If child is disgusted with certain food, maybe it is temporary dislike. You can let him try tasting it again after an interval of time.
15. Learn rull of food replacement
If a child really dislike some food, try to find out a substitution that has similar nutrient component. Be more patient to take things as they come. For children, added food is a kind of fresh food. Food that is not accepted at present may be accepted later. So mom should be patient to try more. So long as the child is healthy and the energy is good, and growth situations fit with growth graph in child health handbook. Even if they eat little sometimes, there is no need to worry about this, just take things as they come.