What should I do if my child is too thin and has a picky diet?

Children's picky eating leads to thinness. First of all, parents should look for the reasons from themselves. Is it because their cooking skills are not good, or our meals are too monotonous and the children are tired of them? Do the parents themselves have the habit of being picky or picky in their daily lives? These are the reasons for children's picky eating. Parents should not prepare too many snacks for their children, because children's stomachs are relatively small. After eating snacks, of course they will have no appetite for dinner.

1. Try to limit the intake of artificially sweetened and heavily seasoned snacks or desserts to avoid interfering with the baby's taste buds and excluding a nutritionally sound meal.

2. Ensure that children have regular eating habits, create a relaxed and harmonious dining atmosphere for them, and guide them to focus on food when eating.

3. When it comes to things that children don’t like to eat, you need to be creative and perform some magic tricks. For example, if you chop something into pieces and mix it with the child's favorite food to create a new flavor, the child will like it. A child who doesn't like vegetables can be given dumplings, and a child who doesn't like meat can be given chopped meat porridge, etc.

There are tips for developing good habits

After get off work, mothers can take their children to the market to buy vegetables. Standing in front of a vegetable stall with a wide variety of vegetables, discuss vegetables with him first, and then buy several different kinds of vegetables based on your baby's opinions. Then, give him the initiative to choose again: "You have already bought the green ones, what other colors should you buy?" Then discuss the colors to match the pork ribs soup. You can choose red carrots, yellow corn, or white radish, etc. At this time, guide him to buy as many vegetables as possible. After choosing his own dishes, he will happily eat each dish and enjoy a sumptuous dinner. Remember to give them the initiative during the grocery shopping process, guide them with a purpose, and praise at the end is indispensable.

For older children, you can tell them the importance of picky eating, for example, eating certain foods can make us grow taller and faster, and eating certain foods can make us smart and beautiful. Encourage your children to try more foods. Don't yell at them or force them to eat the foods, as this will only increase their aversion to the foods.