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Children are not fond of eating and picky about food
Nanning City, Ms. Du has a 3-year-old grandson, called Huahua. Hua Hua doesn't like to eat. After a few mouthfuls at the meal point, he runs to watch TV. Hua Hua is shorter than her peers and weighs less. Ms. Du's family are worried. Sometimes, in order to make Hua Hua eat more, Ms. Du feeds her child and coaxes him to eat slowly. Sometimes coaxing doesn't work. She has to promise to take him to play or buy toys before he is willing to eat.
The reporter interviewed 10 parents randomly, and 4 parents said that their children don't like to eat or are picky about food. Ms. Cen, the person in charge of Nanning Qihang trusteeship center, also said that she has been working in the trusteeship Center for many years. She often encounters the phenomenon that children don't like to eat or are picky about food. "Three or four of the 10 children don't like to eat," and "many children don't like to eat carrots or vegetables.".
Most parents think that children's bad habits of not eating and being picky about food are bad habits, and they will try their best to get rid of them. Mr. Li, a citizen, said that their husband and wife go to work, and their children are usually taken by the elderly. He found that grandparents love their children, and the children can satisfy themselves with snacks and drinks, resulting in the children's reluctance to eat. Sometimes he communicates with his children's grandparents, so that they don't let their children eat so many snacks. If they can insist, their children will have a better appetite at meal time. But if children eat snacks, they don't like to eat. Therefore, he felt that it was very bad for children not to like eating.
Ms. Wang and Mr. Li have different views. Kangkang, the 4-year-old son of Ms. Wang's family, doesn't like broccoli and carrots. She always says that these vegetables have a 'bad smell'. Ms. Wang chopped them up and put them into porridge. Sometimes the child had already eaten them in his mouth and vomited them out. Ms. Wang had a headache. Sometimes, in order to make the child eat broccoli or carrots, she promised to buy him a gift. 'but it's not good to be used to him. Later, I thought that if children didn't like broccoli, they would not eat it. There was no need to force them to eat it. Now there are many kinds of food, and they should also be able to absorb nutrition from other foods. '
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The reason is that children don't like to eat or don't exercise enough
Zhou Yijun, director of Bagui Yuesao baby optimization development center, said that children don't like to eat for various reasons, which may be the bad habit formed at the stage of adding complementary food. When parents add complementary food to their children, they don't add it regularly and quantitatively. The baby can eat whenever he wants and eat as much as he wants. In the long run, they will develop bad habits such as not loving to eat and being picky about food. For example, for a 4-month-old baby, adding egg yolk is one eighth of the amount at the beginning of a meal, but when parents see that their children love to eat, they give them too much. In fact, this is unscientific. At the beginning of adding supplementary food, egg yolk should be added gradually, gradually increasing to one sixth and one fourth of the egg quantity. When adding complementary food, at the same time to observe the child's sleep, defecation and other conditions, inappropriate to timely adjust the amount of complementary food added. 2. 3-year-old children can develop their ability to eat.
In addition, children do not like to eat may also be because the child less exercise, no energy consumption in the body. Children don't eat if they are not hungry. Parents can strengthen their children's exercise, take them to outdoor sports, and let them jump at home if they have no conditions.
Zhou Yijun suggested that parents should not encourage their children to eat in exchange for their children's unwillingness to eat. In addition, parents should also pay attention to the production and guidance of their children's diet, cultivate their children's interest in food, understand their children's taste, and adjust the color and flavor. It's not good for parents to ask their children to eat unilaterally. If they are hungry, they will not eat. But if some children are delicate and don't eat at all, parents can't force them to correct their children's habits. They need to deal with it according to the situation.
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Methods let children participate in food production
Zhou Yijun said that parents' complaints about their children's "you are picky eaters" are tantamount to the parents' conclusion that children are picky eaters and children will be affected. Parents should encourage their children to divert their attention by telling stories, or take them to food producing places such as rice fields to let them know about food and arouse their interest. When cooking, parents should not only pay attention to taste, but also pay attention to increase the amount of vegetables, the best meat should not exceed one third of the total. The amount of vegetables and meat should be matched according to the nutrition pyramid of the diet. Parents can query on the Internet and match food scientifically.
CEN Yuhua is the mother of a six-year-old child and the head of Nanning Qihang trusteeship center. She also has a son who is not fond of eating and is picky about food. However, cen Yuhua has her own way to deal with children's bad habits: she can make colorful recipes for children, and make colorful dumplings and dumplings by using natural vegetable juices such as carrots and purple broccoli; She will also make food into children's favorite shapes, such as making rose steamed bread, tree shaped corn, heart-shaped fried eggs and so on. When children see these beautiful dishes, they love them very much, and naturally they love them. CEN Yuhua's son doesn't like mushrooms and walnuts, so she makes them into stuffing, buns and dumplings. Let children accept more food in various forms.
CEN Yuhua said that if the parents' cooking skills are not so good and they can't cook delicious food, they can choose to let their children participate in the food production, such as making dumplings and buying vegetables together. In the process of participation, children will have a sense of achievement, will have special feelings for the food they cook, and will also become fond of eating. This is an effective way to make children love eating.
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Want kids not to be picky, parents to 'look in the mirror'
While children are strictly required to eat omnivores, it is necessary for parents to check themselves regularly. Many children's food preference and pickiness are related to family eating habits. British nutrition experts have studied 1000 mothers and found that 80% of them have a partial diet. They also have a wrong idea about what kind of food to give their children. If parents are partial to food, they must overcome their own problems, set an example, take the lead in tasting, and praise again and again to inspire and induce their children.
Related studies also found that children's partial eating is related to improper parental guidance. Some children never eat fish! Why? It's because the mother is afraid that the fish will stab the child and won't let the child eat. Some mothers like to tell their children what they think of food -- 'what's delicious and what's not'. Even a seemingly "most concerned" sentence often asked by mothers -- "what would you like to eat today?" we should also pay attention to "be careful with your mouth", because it can also bring such a suggestive effect: "you can not eat bad food" and "you can choose your own food at will.".
Parents should give affirmation and praise to any progress shown by children; for children with little progress, guidance should be given priority to, combined with incentive measures to speed up the establishment of good eating habits. A child of six or seven years old has a long habit. Parents should patiently reason with him about the nutrition in this kind of food, the benefits to human health, and the harm of not eating it.
When it is found that children begin to dislike certain foods, parents should never admit that they are "legal" and should not give their children the right to partial diet. If parents stop giving their children some vegetables as soon as they see that they don't eat them, over time, a 'synergistic effect' may be formed, and more and more food is not eaten.