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5 Ways to Make Your Child Eat Better

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How to improve the eating habits of your child?

                Most parents can relate to others complaining about their children’s bad eating habits. There’s actually a phase that children go through; it’s called picky eating.

                Making your children eat something that they decide they don’t want to eat is a nightmare. You know for a fact that the food you want the children to eat is healthy and good for them. But they just seem not to give that the slightest importance.

                However, there are some strategies that you can follow to enhance the eating habits of your child. You only need to be a little smart about it, and you’ll eventually manage to make your child eat anything.

Here are the best 5 ways to make your child eat better:

1st Don’t Put Pressure on Your Child

Child psychology experts say that taking a neutral approach with the child is a better strategy. When you put pressure on the child, she/he will resist because children often don’t want to be enforced into something.

Fussy eating is a natural phase in the child’s development. When you know that, you realize that it’s natural, and human pressure never seems to win over nature. You have to respect their natural response to some foods and keep in mind that it won’t last forever.

Instead, try to keep a positive environment around the food table; that way, everyone will feel good about eating. 

2nd Teach Your Child How to Communicate About Hunger and Food

Instead of battling about food eating around the table (which will only raise anger), try to encourage your kids to communicate about their food intake. Kids are programmed by nature to control their food intake. For example, babies cry when they’re hungry, and stop when they aren’t anymore. When babies grow up, it’s better if they know how to communicate their hunger linguistically and how to manage those feelings through language.

It’s counter-intuitive to enforce your child to eat according to their nature. They will grow up and rely on external factors to decide their eating habits, which might lead to food disorders. It’s okay if your child doesn’t finish her/his meal as long as she/he feels fullness internally.

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3rd Provide a diverse Diet throughout the Week

By providing diversity, you let your child experiment with foods they like. They also discover new tastes that they like that way. Providing a diverse diet is not only very healthy, but it also broadens the perspective of children around food.

However, the best thing about diversifying food is giving your kids options. Kids need to have a certain amount of freedom within the set limits.  

4th Bring Your Kids to the Kitchen

Typically, as kids grow up, they find the kitchen interesting and like to help prepare food. When children help to make a meal, they are very likely to eat it even if they don’t like it at first.

The preparation of food also sheds a light on it, especially the foods that children might consider gross. When the child discovers the method and helps prepare the food they find it interesting and worth trying.

You may also take your children to the market to help you with picking groceries. It will help them to learn many social skills besides compelling them to try the foods they choose.

5th Set a Good Example

Parenting is about setting a good example. When children see your attitude towards food, they will copy it. Fussy eaters are usually products of families where there are other fussy eaters, especially parents.

When your child sees how you enjoy some foods that, she/he doesn’t like at first, their curiosity will drive her/him to see what you like about that food and eventually like it.

If the parents eat healthily, the children will also do the same thing. It’s a matter of improving the food habits of the entire family.

Conclusion

Improving the diet of your child is a responsibility that might determine the future health of your child. Therefore, it shouldn’t be taken lightly. It shouldn’t also be a matter of stress. Taking a more objective perspective is the best approach.    

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