Many kids grow at poor eaters. Especially, when they just pass from a table of the baby to adult. Very often physicians hear complaints to small appetite from mothers of one-year-old children. Experts assure: all this is normal, and it is necessary just to learn several small cunnings which will help to normalize appetite small nekhochukh.
The small appetite at the child at the age of a year can be caused by a huge number of the reasons. For example, the kid just does not like any given products. Perhaps, he does not love broccoli and a cauliflower. But words he cannot express it. As a result he reduces appetite. Mummy begins to offer more actively food, the child refuses more and more, and they get to a vicious circle.
There is an option that the child eats a little because is unwell. In this case it is necessary to look narrowly at behavior of the child very attentively. If he is uneasy, rolls out legs and cries and also presses hands to a stomach, so food does not go to it for the future.
If in addition to concern there are such symptoms as nausea, vomiting, a foamy chair, etc., it is worth seeing a doctor. Most likely, the child has problems with digestion and assimilation of any given types of products.
The child can refuse food also in case it seems to him boring. Children at one-year-old age very much love bright things. And food not an exception. On the basis of experiments and researches the scientists and physicians defined a number of rules which help to turn one-year-old not the person interested is the child in the tot eating food greedily.
What to do that the child began to eat
First of all, it is worth understanding that if you get down to business reeducation of a nekhochukha in the child with appetite, it is necessary to maintain the mode and to stock up with patience. The first point of the plan – obligatory discipline and the mode. Food has to be at the same time, directly according to the schedule. If the kid eats on hours and approximately in the same intervals, it helps to customize his digestive system on a working harmony. Around it biorhythms begin to become more active and be tied.
First of all there has to be a discipline of parents. It is not necessary to push to the child a spoon violently. The main thing to force itself not to be lazy and to construct day of the kid so that food was for it same natural as a dream and walks.
Paragraph second is a menu. Do not refuse to the child unwillingness there are products which are not pleasant to it. He is a person too, though small, and it has preferences. Therefore just it is worth playing with the menu – to pick up new combinations of products. Offer the kid 2-3 dishes at choice that it surely had options. It is worth taking care also of decorating of dishes. The food is more interesting and brighter, the it is more than desire at the child it to eat.
However it is also necessary not to go too far in realness. It is connected with the fact that if to make too natural hare or a duck, the child just can become grudges it.
Besides, try to listen to the child. Perhaps, he has an intolerance of any products, they break digestion. You with the naked eye do not see it, and the child suffers and subconsciously refuses them. Also do not forget that the child has to experience positive emotions at meal time. Of course, it does not mean that it needs to turn on the TV or to give the tablet with cartoons. Rather just to make food bright, to use cheerful ware with amusing pictures, etc.
What you should not do
It is impossible to force the child at all. Any violence generates a protest. You risk to receive result when the child absolutely refuses food.