What to do if your child has a picky eater

Many parents are helpless in the face of their children's picky eating problems, especially when they carefully prepare a variety of nutritious and healthy foods for them, the children resist this. At this time, parents will be very worried about whether the nutrition of their children can keep up with their development. Helping children solve the problem of picky eating is a more important issue. Let's take a look at the effective ways to alleviate children's picky eating problems!

If a child has a picky eating habit, it will have an adverse effect on his nutritional supplementation. Therefore, parents cannot ignore this problem. They should use various methods to improve their children's appetite and enhance their desire to eat.

How to use your baby's curiosity

If there is food that your baby doesn’t like on the table, don’t force him or her to eat it, lest he or she develops a resistance to the food. Babies are still young and they cannot understand what “nutrition” means. What we need to do is to take advantage of the baby's curiosity. For example, we can eat dishes that he doesn't like with relish in front of him, and communicate with your partner about your positive feelings about the dishes, especially about the taste. After a few times, the baby will be more curious about the food, and in order to join in the conversation with mom and dad, he will start to eat the food he didn't like before.

Fewer choices, more consumption

Don't have too many different kinds of dishes at each meal. Even adults will unconsciously eat more of the things they like. Babies don't have big appetites. If they like too many things, they will naturally reject those they don't like. To get your baby to eat something he doesn't like, you need to remove the "interference items" as much as possible, so that there are only two or three options on the table. The best combination is something your baby likes to eat, but not in large quantities.

Another option is to give your baby something he doesn't like to eat, but you want to give him something so that he can eat without having too many choices. The implementation of this method requires two prerequisites. One is not to let babies eat too many snacks before meals, as a full stomach will reduce their desire to eat; the other is to increase their physical energy consumption and make babies feel hungry.

Lead by example and encourage progress

The baby's eating habits are greatly influenced by their parents, so parents must not discuss in front of the baby what dishes are delicious and what are not, what they like to eat and what they don't like to eat, and do not let the parents' eating habits affect the baby.

For the baby's health, parents should adjust their eating habits. They should not stop their baby from eating something just because they don't like it. They should try to ensure that the baby gets comprehensive and rich nutrition. Mom and Dad should encourage every progress the baby makes in overcoming picky eating, so that the baby will be happy to maintain his or her progress.

When you encounter a baby with a picky eating problem, you must never treat them with a scolding attitude, because that will not only fail to alleviate the problem, but will make them have a stronger resistance. This will not only fail to play a good role in treating picky eating, but may also make the child more resistant to it.