What are the reasons for children's picky eating?

Children are the lifeblood of the family, but many children nowadays have some bad habits, which cause headaches for their parents. For example, eating is a difficult issue for many children. Many children do not eat well and have bad habits of being picky eaters. So, what are the reasons for children’s picky eaters? For this situation, let’s take a look at the following introduction.

1. Long-term monotonous diet. There are two situations. One is that you feel sick of a certain food after eating it for a long time, and finally you don't like to eat it anymore. Second, people become accustomed to the food they have been eating for a long time, which leads to rejection of certain new foods with different tastes.

2. Influenced by parents’ picky eating habits. Parents should set a good example and not allow their children to be picky eaters.

3. Temporary intolerance to certain foods, such as eating improperly prepared or stored food, or eating greasy food that is not suitable for eating due to illness, which causes a loss of appetite and develops into a fixed picky eater.

4. Loving to eat snacks or eating too much snacks will lead to picky eating. On the one hand, eating too many snacks will affect your appetite and eventually lead to picky eating. On the other hand, loving to eat snacks, especially only eating processed snacks, will make the child's taste increasingly "behaved", and it will be more difficult for him to accept vegetables or other processed meals.

5. Some families watch TV while eating, or play while eating, which will distract the children and prevent them from concentrating on eating. In some families, when children are eating, parents stare at them for fear that they are not eating enough or eating well. Gradually, the children will use eating slowly as a means of threatening adults, and exchange the adults' attention and care for them. Over time, this habit is formed, and the more anxious the parents are to make them eat, the worse the children will eat.

What is the reason why children are picky eaters? The main reasons for children's picky eating are the ones mentioned above, so parents must first set a good example and not be picky eaters themselves. At the same time, the daily diet should not be too monotonous. The meals should be as delicious and diverse as possible. Also, do not let children develop the habit of playing while eating.