16 Effective Tips to Overcome Difficult Childhood Eating - Do you have a difficult problem children eat? If yes, then you including from the many parents who often complained about his young children is difficult to eat and not worry about the nutritional adequacy. Food intake for children is the most important thing especially in a period of growth for toddlers aged 1 s / d 5 years.
The food is useful for the fulfillment of nutritional and energy needs for children in performing everyday activities. If less food intake, then a toddler is likely to be susceptible to disease due to lack of nutrients and vitamins required by the body and can also interfere with the child's growth. Difficulty eating child's symptoms should be addressed immediately in order not to become a sustainable habit. The signs typically include children tend to dislike vegetables, just like a certain menu, etc.
There are two factors that cause child feeding, namely:
Physical factors that disruption of the digestive organs or the child could be due to an infection in the body of the child.
Psychological factors related to the child's psychological, like a child is sick, the child feels anxious, children are forced to eat, when to eat less pleasant ambience, feel depressed as a result of violence or punishment received, etc.
Difficulty eating child's condition is often experienced by children under the age of 1 s / d 5 years. Various methods are elderly people trying to cope with a difficult child to eat. There are even some parents become stressed children face problems compounded difficulty eating when the child is picky in terms of food.
Well, if you experience problems like the above, here are 16 Effective Tips to Overcome Difficult Childhood Eating:
If your toddler is aged over 6 months, ranging provide complementary feeding porridge of milk, juice, and then gradually to a more dense texture of foods such as rice team, and so on. For complementary foods should be tailored to the age of your toddler. Do not immediately given solid rice because it can disrupt the digestive tract.
If you choose a toddler foods such as instant porridge that is currently available on the market and packed in a practical box, note the label on the packaging and in order to be adapted to the age of your toddler. Usually available instant porridge for ages 6-24 months with a variety of flavors. You can do a variety of flavors while giving food to your toddler that he does not feel bored while eating, for example, there are 7 sense of meaning within 1 week of your toddler will enjoy different foods each day.
For young children over 2 years old, vary the side dishes menu. Create a menu choice of food and let your child choose his favorite food. Or you can also vary based on the time of eating. For example breakfast: bread, potatoes, eggs, and drink a glass of milk, a lunch: rice vegetable teams with fish, vegetable rice dinner with meat / chicken. Do not forget to provide fruit or gelatin pudding as dessert dishes after each meal.
Set your child's meals regularly so that he used to eat when the time has come.
If you are happy to provide snacks, snack given away before mealtime. Give healthy snacks such as fruit is cut to resemble dice, gelatin, vegetable such as steamed carrots, cucumbers, yogurt, pudding, ice cream, homemade cake, etc. Avoid giving snacks such as chocolate, candy, snack containing flavor (MSG) because it can reduce your child's appetite.
Encourage your child when you are preparing his diet, give praise so that children feel happy and more excited to eat
Serve foods should not be mixed with an interesting mix between rice and side dishes. Presentation can draw with a dinner plate that he likes then separated between rice with side dishes that looked interesting and inviting your child's appetite. Or it could also decorate the food you serve given eg vegetables, cucumbers, tomatoes, with a form that caught his attention.
Do not force, threaten, let alone scare the child so that he would eat as this will only cause psychological trauma. Urge your child gently and wait for him to eat and to obey your words.
You must understand the child's condition, and be patient. If your child still does not want to eat let alone first anyway so he was hungry, he would ask for a meal by itself.
Serve food in small portions first, do not force children to spend a portion of food with excessive because gastric your child is not able to accommodate food too much. So give it food little by little so that he does not get bored and can enjoy food menu. If your child is happy and hooked usually he tends to ask again after the portion that runs in front of him.
When mealtimes arrive, switch off (turn off) your television, toy away from the dinner table, or other objects that could interfere with his concentration while eating.
During the meal lasted activity remains good communication with your child so that the activities of eating was fun for him. Set granting drinks during meals, not too much to drink because the child would feel satiety and lazy to finish his meal.
Occasionally let your toddler try to eat food alone without your help (without being fed), you just simply watching it. Do not worry about your dining table so messy due to spillage of food, because it makes the atmosphere eating becomes fun for your child.
You need to try to provide a multi-vitamin or supplement appetite enhancer which is sold freely, for example Curcuma Plus ™ (a price of about Rp. 11 thousand), Vidoran plus ™ (price around Rp.13 thousand), etc. that contains Curcuma are believed to increase absorption of nutrients in the digestive tract so that it can increase the appetite and the amount of HCl Lysine is an amino acid to maintain nitrogen balance in the body that increases appetite.
If your child is still difficult to eat or indicated malnutrition, you should visit a doctor or nutritionist to consult.
