How Your babies Eat Well

Many parents worry about and work hard for their children to eat well. They try their best to prepare a variety of foods. They just want their children to eat a few more bites, but the children just don’t cooperate, and the parents chase their baby behind them. But this way of feeding is not good for children. It will be difficult for children to become independent in the future. If you want to avoid it, you must solve the problem of children eating independently.

After the baby reaches 1 year old, it is a good time to train the child to eat independently. At this time, the baby's eye, foot, and hand coordination ability develop rapidly, and the parents' guidance is in place at this time, which will generate great results with half the effort for the child to eat.

Why do so many children refuse to eat by themselves? The big reason is that at this time, the parents stifled the children’s ability to eat on their own. When the baby started to try to eat on his own, many parents would feed the children themselves and often feed the children themselves in order to prevent the children from spreading the food everywhere.

Under what circumstances baby can eat on his own?

1. When the baby eats, he likes to grab a meal with his hands;

2. The baby can drink water from a cup by himself;

3. When the food in the baby's spoon is about to fall, the baby will lick the spoon with his mouth.

Many parents are opposed to the baby's grabbing food with their hands, and they find that the baby will stop it when grabbing rice with their hands. This is completely unnecessary. Only when the baby grabs the food with his hands can he feel the food better and become familiar with and interested in the food. All parents have to do is to ensure that the baby's hands are clean.

Parents should not be afraid that the baby will eat in such a mess and deprive the baby of the right to eat independently. You can prepare baby tableware for your baby to eat, let your baby go, and eat it freely.

Allowing the baby to eat independently is actually training the baby’s independent personality. If the parents keep feeding the baby, the baby will become accustomed to relying on the parents, which not only kills the baby’s self-eating nature, but also the baby’s independence will be delayed, so it will lead to many scenes chasing the baby to feed.

How can parents mobilize the baby's interest in eating independently?

1. Food matching tricks

The color of the food is single, the baby will not be interested in the food in front of him, and the natural enthusiasm will not be placed on the food. There will be situations where mom and dad feed. Some babies refuse to eat on their own, perhaps because they don’t like the food in front of them and “escape”. To solve this problem, mom and dad need to work hard on the food. The tastes and colors are changeable, the nutrition is balanced, and the food looks creative. The color matching and appearance attract the baby's interest in eating. The baby will naturally eat by himself, and parents do not have to chase the baby to feed.

2. Eat with your baby

Parents’ guidance is crucial to cultivating good eating habits for babies. Parents can sit down and eat together with their babies when it’s time to eat. The babies have a sense of imitation. Seeing parents eating will also stimulate the baby’s desire to eat. Following the imitation with the parents, the baby will have the ability to eat independently. Parents do not need to teach by hand, through movement guidance and language guidance, they can let the baby play the gift of eating independently, which will improve the coordination between the baby's hands, eyes, and brain, and exercise the flexibility of the baby's finger movements.

3. Respect the baby's eating progress

The baby will eat slowly, parents must be patient and not anxious because the baby eats slowly. The baby will be sensitive to the parents' attitude, which will put pressure on the baby. What parents have to do is to create a happy atmosphere when eating, so that the baby can eat independently in a good environment.

4. Praise your baby for eating

Babies like the praises of their parents, parents can serve the baby less food every time they eat. When the baby finishes eating, they praise him "Awesome and finish again." Let the baby have a sense of accomplishment, and the baby will take the initiative to eat more.

Parents are more concerned about whether the baby can eat well, and whether he is willing to eat independently. In cultivating the baby to eat independently, I hope that it can help parents