Dealing a children who eat less is stressful
and annoyed us as a parent. Children are should get enough food intake for the
development of their body and brain. Lack of food intake can make impaired the
child development
Parents are should be more resourceful and
creative in dealing with this problem. Forcing children to eat then scolded
until left them to cry is not a great
things to do. Especially when coupled physical contact such as pinching or
hitting. If you do that, children will be even more difficult to find time to
eat. They will think eating time is something terrible they have to avoid.
Here are 7 tips to cope with children who got
difficult eat issues :
1. Give children with a small portions of
food. Child's stomach and we as adults
are certainly not the same. That’s why the amount of food intake is also
different. With small portions, the children would spend their food. Faster
2. Have
variation in the food display. Be creative with the presentation. There`s a lot of tutorial on the internet about how to make the food look appealing. You just along
with it or just add it with your creativity.
3. Don`t
give your children any snack near the main meal. Because it will make your
child full and refusing to eat.
4. Take the children to involve in food serving. They can start with preparing foodstuffs,
cooking to provide it at the dinner table. Children will be happy to
eating the foods that cooked by
themselves. Don`t forget, your supervision
is very important here because
there is a sharp and fire equipment that can be injurious your child at the kitchen.
5. Start to had a family meal at the dinner
table, whether it breakfast, lunch or dinner. In will bring the family bonding,
and make the children get easier to eat
because there is a sense of togetherness there.
Making a regular eating schedule with children
will make them easier to overcome the child who got the eat less issues. Regular schedule will
make the child eat more because they eating in hungry. Make an eating schedule at least five times a day, which is
three times The
main meal schedule, morning, noon and night. Then two
meals snack such as fruit and cakes. A meal time is must be a fun time so that
children will always seek for it.
