Feeding of the child – the most frequent subject for discussion of mothers and grandmothers. The kid almost eats nothing or behaves badly, all this drives parents to despair. How to fight against it?
First of all it is necessary to remember that food is a physiological requirement, any living being will consciously not lose some food, and the child not an exception. So, such behavior at a table – result of incorrectly created eating habits. And as food of the kid entirely depends on parents, and all responsibility lies on them.
"Do not eat up yet – because of a table you will not leave!"
Quite so many parents try to force the child is. Manipulations can be various: "Eat soup – you will receive cake", "I so tried, prepared, and you do not eat", "Will not eat, you will put in hospital". It is important to understand that all this is violence over the child which in the future can lead to psychological problems. In order that at your kid the correct eating habits were created, it is necessary to adhere to some points:
1. It is not necessary to force to eat violently. The child ceases to understand a difference between feelings of satiety and hunger, he just does not manage to get hungry. Give smaller portions that to the following meal he wanted to eat again. 2. It is impossible "to pick". To Nakhvatavshit after a lunch of various having a snack, your child will definitely not want to have supper.
3. Give to the child the chance of the choice – one or the other dishes - and an opportunity to refuse an unloved dish.4. It is not necessary to distract the child cartoons or theater productions of mothers and grandmothers, it the hidden violence too. 5. To interest the child in a new or unloved dish, it is possible to decorate unusually it or a tax on a bright plate. In general, if the child is healthy, it is not necessary to try to feed every time him in any way, there are also other ways to express parental care.
Behavior at a table
How to be if the child spins at a table, scatters food, knocks a spoon? Thus your kid tries to draw attention to himself and if mom violently reacts to one such trick – the child will do it again and again. An exit most just from such situation – not to react. Absolutely. If the little actor has no audience, then there will be no representation also. A great way to correct behavior of the child is the joint meal, put the kid for a table d'hote even if so far you prepare for it separately. The child will see how other family members eat as they behave as they use tableware. Good habits can stick as well as bad.