Ten tips to help you solve the problem of children's picky eating

Now many children in our family have more or less picky eating problems. This problem is very detrimental to the growth of our children. So how should we parents help our children improve the problem of picky eating? Let us tell you how to help children improve the problem of picky eating.

1. Supplement children's nutrients

It should be noted that most children’s picky eating and partial eating habits are often caused by a lack of nutrients such as iron and zinc in the body. Therefore, parents should supplement their children with student nutrients every day.

2. Pay attention to cultivating children's good habits of not eating snacks and junk food

If children keep eating snacks, digestive juices will be continuously secreted and the gastrointestinal tract will keep moving without rest. In the long run, this will cause digestive dysfunction. When eating, digestive juices will be in short supply and food cannot be digested and absorbed well in the stomach. Of course, children will lose their appetite. Since children have no appetite, they will definitely not eat well, and will be picky about the food they like. They will eat more of the food they like and not eat a single bite of the food they don’t like. Gradually, they will develop the habit of being picky and partial eaters. Therefore, never let your children develop the habit of eating snacks and junk food.

3. Parents must set a good example for their children by not being picky or partial to food.

If parents refuse to eat this or that, their children will be influenced by them and will also develop the same behavior.

4. Overcome impatience

When children become picky eaters, parents should not be impatient or force their children to eat. Parents should not show anxiety in front of their children or tell others about their children's bad habits and their own anxiety in front of their children. This can easily give children negative suggestions and reinforcement effects.

5. Create a good dining atmosphere and avoid scolding or beating children at the table.

When children are picky eaters, parents should not be anxious, because correcting children's bad habits requires long-term and persistent efforts. Using negative methods such as coercion, punishment, coaxing, etc. will not only fail to solve the problem, but sometimes will have a negative impact, so parents must be patient.

6. Cultivate good eating habits for children

Balanced diet should be scientific, reasonable and comprehensive, so that children can eat all kinds of food at regular times and in regular amounts to develop good habits. If children eat at regular times and in regular amounts every day, they will develop normal eating habits over time. In this way, when it is time to eat, the child's body will automatically secrete digestive juices, producing a feeling of hunger, and the child will taste sweet when eating.

7. Cultivate new tastes in children

Cultivate new tastes If a child only eats one favorite food every day, it will cause malnutrition. We need to cultivate his interest in new food. You can choose to make his favorite food for one of the three meals, and choose other foods for the other two meals. On the one hand, the child’s habits have been satisfied, and choosing one of two foods that he does not like will not cause him to dislike. No matter which one he chooses, it is a new attempt and a welcome progress.

8. Don’t give your child too much food

Children have small stomach capacity, and a full plate of food just looks like it will make them full, so just make sure they have enough to eat.

9. Use cover to mix foods your child likes and dislikes

For example, if you don’t eat vegetables but love dumplings, just wrap the vegetables in the dumplings. If you like soup, then cook it in the soup. If you don’t like eating fruits but love drinking yogurt, you can mix fruits and yogurt together to make a salad. Remember, start with less of the food you don't like and then gradually increase the amount.

10. A variety of delicious food transformations

Because of previous experience, many children are unwilling to try a certain food again once they think it tastes bad. At this time, parents might as well make the food invisible and let the children eat it without knowing it. For example, you can chop, puree, juice or cut the food that children hate to eat into small pieces, and then add it to other foods to cook them together.

Only if we can help children develop good eating habits from an early age can we effectively help them to be healthier, so let’s start correcting your children’s picky eating habits now.