To avoid problems with health and behavior, it is necessary to feed the kid correctly. Your kid every day grows and develops, explores the world around. In six-nine months the child with pleasure tastes different food, itself eats cookies or a steering-wheel, holding in hand, tries to drink from a cup, tries to hold a spoon. Means, there came time to help it to master all this knowledge and the most important to develop the positive relation to meal.
Instruction
1. Surely before food wash to the kid of a hand. Usually, at the age of 6 – 9 months it is necessary to enter many new products into a diet of the child. It is necessary to enter gradually, without applying violence that at the kid the positive relation was created to meal.
2. Talk to the child, prepare him for meal in advance – explain that he will have dinner now, and the lunch will be very tasty.
3. As a rule, kids at this age already well eat various food from a spoon: porridge, puree, meat (if the doctor already resolves). Tell it what he already big, time is able to eat from a spoon, and what good fellow.
4. Gradually change the child's pose when feeding. In 5 – 6 months the kid eats in a semi-sitting position. From 6.5-7 months of the child it is already possible to put for meal, but with support.
5. When the kid learns to fit well, approximately in 7.5-8 months, during feeding put it in a special children's stool.
6. From seven-months age of the kid it is necessary to accustom to drink from a mug. At first you bring a cup to the child's mouth, but gradually it is necessary to teach the kid to hold a cup independently that by 11 months the kid himself was able to drink from it.
7. Give to the child in a hand cookies, bread or crouton that he learned to eat. If the kid has no teeth yet, he all the same gnaws him gums. It is necessary to give bread before acceptance of food, the kid has to sit at a table, and you can cook to it food at this time.
8. Accustom the child already from such age to accuracy. Tie up to the kid a bib or a napkin, on a spoon gather so much food that the child could swallow it. Try not to soil when feeding a chin and cheeks to the kid and if soiled – at once wipe a napkin. During feeding the children's table has to be clean too. If on a table something got from food – at once it is necessary to wipe, without waiting for the end of feeding.
9. It is important to parents to understand that already from early age at children are formed food behavior and habits, and it is necessary to help the kid to produce them. What will be his behavior – depends on you. Following not difficult rules, you will help the kid to learn to eat independently, to observe accuracy and to develop the correct behavior at meal.