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Toddler Food: More Rules of the Eating ‘Game’

Here are some more of eating ‘Game’ to help a toddler:

Don’t Give Too Much Milk or Juiceorange-juice-or-milk

Many parents don’t watch their toddlers’ milk and juice intake but then complain about their poor food intake. It is important that you not let your toddler have milk or juice every time she feels hungry. Milk and juice are filling and your child will lose her appetite. Too much milk or juice intake will eventually result in an imbalanced diet for your toddler.

Don’t Negotiate or Bargain for Bites

 It is recommended that you not provide a substitute for the food you have presented to your toddler. Never negotiate or bargain, offering a sweet treat in exchange for your child eating a less desirable food item. This dessert bargaining tactic is very common among parents, but such tricks prove useless in the long run. You cannot convince your toddler of the nutritious value of a meal every time you sit down to eat; you cannot give a bribe for every bite. If your child isn’t ready to eat, leave him for a while. He will ask for food when he is hungry.

Provide a Peer Exampleeating with peers

Pressure from parents may generate a dislike for a certain food. Peer pressure, however, can be a helpful and healthy tactic to get your child to eat a food she doesn’t like. Toddlers like to copy their siblings in everything they do. Or, if your child doesn’t have elder siblings, invite her friends or cousins over and serve them the food that your toddler won’t eat. When she sees other friends eating and enjoying food she doesn’t like, she may start eating it too. This competition with fellow children is more effective than pressure from parents.

Understand Signals from Your Toddler

 It is very important for parents to understand body language and other signals from their toddlers. If your toddler starts playing with his spoon or fork, it may be a signal that he doesn’t want to eat any more. If your toddler says ‘no’ to food, don’t force him to eat even one more bite. By doing this, you are teaching your kids to ignore the internal message from their body that tells them when their stomach is full. If this is repeated, children develop the habit of ignoring their internal cues and stop being able to recognize when they are full and when they are not.

Fix Meal Timesfix meal time for toddlers

Don’t let your toddler eat all the time. She should learn that not every moment is a time to eat. If you fix specific times for meals and snacks, she will manage her appetite accordingly. Otherwise, she will be ready to eat at any time and will not know when she actually needs food.

Avoid giving juices or snacks outside of these fixed times, even if your child asks for food. She will not starve but rather learn to manage her appetite.

Don’t Try to Feed Your Toddler

Let your toddler be independent. Toddlers love to do things on their own. They are exploring the world and enjoy being their own masters. They don’t want to be dictated to, so let them enjoy limited power at the dining table.

If you let them eat—even if they spill food and you have to clean a mess later—they will learn to love experimenting with food.

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