Many parents are faced with a common problem - a child's lack of appetite. Kids often start to be capricious, refuse to eat, and behave ugly at the table. Therefore, their parents, realizing that the state of their health directly depends on the diet and diet of children, they are looking for all sorts of ways in order to increase the child's appetite as quickly as possible.
It is not always possible to immediately convince the baby to eat right, but if you show patience and understanding, the goal will be achieved. So, what can you do if your child is not eating well and is naughty at the table?
- Try to strictly adhere to the diet of the child. Sometimes, in order to increase the child's appetite, it is enough just to give up the habit of feeding the baby sweet or sandwiches between meals. Children must learn that meals should take place at a strictly allotted time.
- Do not feed your baby while walking or in a hurry - babies should eat while sitting at the table. At the same time, it is advisable not to distract the child from eating by playing games, talking or watching TV. Let food intake become a process that requires attention and concentration for the baby.
- Do not force feed your children. Even the smallest child loves to demonstrate a spirit of contradiction, so refusal to eat is always more likely when parents try to impose the need for food on their children. Forcing a child to swallow food, accompanying lectures with outbursts of irritation and anger is the most ungrateful and wrong method of cultivating the habit of eating right. Parents should not show their bad mood or excessive anxiety - it is enough just to praise the child for a good appetite. All punishments for malnourished food should be avoided.
- Do not tease your child with stories that someone else will get the unfinished meal (neighbor children, brother or sister, dogs, etc.). Such phrases often develop greed and selfishness in children.
- The best way to increase a child's appetite is to strive for maximum variety in their daily diet. Even a child's favorite dish will cease to evoke positive emotions in him if you cook it every day. A beautiful, interestingly decorated dish is quite capable of arousing appetite in children by its very appearance.
- Pay attention to how the child behaves at the table - make sure that he spreads food on the plate and scatters it on the table. The main example for children is their parents, so try to eat carefully and with appetite yourself. The kid will learn from you both good manners and the right attitude to food.
