The small appetite of the child is an eternal reason for alarm of parents. Some mothers and fathers arrange the whole representations somehow to feed the kid. And everything can be not so terrible? Problems with appetite meet at many children.
The indifferent relation of the child to food can be his personal feature, but sometimes serves as a signal of any trouble in an organism. The appetite is affected by various factors, especially work of digestive tract and central nervous system. Nervous system, cooperating with digestive tract, influences production of the substances necessary for digestion. The food which is not casually eaten with hunting, is digested better. Look for a solution of the problem of appetite together with the pediatrician. Before a visit to the expert write down several days that when and how many the child eats. The doctor will estimate a diet of the kid and will make recommendations as to correct it if it is necessary. Mothers and fathers sometimes absolutely unreasonably worry concerning small appetite of the child. If he is cheerful and vigorous, healthy and well develops, you should not dramatize a situation. In many respects the appetite of the child is formed by parents so try to help the kid independently. Observe a diet, at the same time consider preferences of the child not only in respect of favourite dishes and products: do not impose to the kid a dense lunch if he likes to eat often and gradually. To some children of rather habitual mode "breakfast-a lunch-a dinner", it is necessary to eat another small portions of 5-6 times a day. Consider features of nervous system of the kid. Before calling by a lunch of the excitable child, provide it time to calm down. Not to frighten off the child from a plate, try not to give him very large portions. Better then offer additives if he does not gorge on. Never insist that the kid surely ate up up to the end all portion if he objects. Try to interest in something the child at a table: decoration of dishes, bright ware, new tastes. Try to prepare together and to funny decorate some dish. When food turns into a game, the child will precisely want to continue it. Do not use as encouragement of delicacy ("you will receive candies if eat soup") that the main course did not gain the smaller importance for the child. If the child with persistence refuses any dish or a product, do not force it. Having consulted to the doctor, just pick up to him replacement.