How should parents help their children control sugar and protect their teeth?

Children love candy. Parents are worried that eating candy will cause tooth decay, so they adopt various high-pressure policies to prevent their children from eating candy. But when we see so many parents who treat their children's teeth in the dentist's office, we know that the struggle between parents and children has failed.

Actually, eating sugar itself is not terrible. As long as it is not excessive, eating sugar is good for children. Sugar is the main source of energy for infants and young children, and eating sugar can make children feel happy. However, eating too much sugar does great harm to children, especially to their teeth. As parents, on the one hand, they should help their children quit sugar addiction by some special means, and on the other hand, they should help their children protect their tiny teeth.

1. How to help your child quit sugar

1. Don't try to "cut off sugar"

As a baby mother, if you want your child to leave candy completely, you are doomed to fail from the root. Our purpose is to help children control sugar, not to quit it. When you want your child to leave candy completely, the child is definitely unwilling. Your high-pressure policy and hidden means can't resist the temptation of candy.

2. Tell stories to children

Children have no distinguishing ability since childhood, and their ability to resist temptation is not strong, but in the process of their growth, children will always worship and imitate some people or things, seize the child's heart, and tell the child about the bad aspects of eating sugar, so that the next time they eat sugar, they will think of their idols. This way of telling stories is much better than simple and rude preaching.

3. Make a reasonable plan to eat sugar

Discuss with your child the number of sweets to eat every day. If your child is unwilling to obey, you can control his child to eat sugar by compulsory means, and then discuss it. Slowly, the child will find that this authority cannot be challenged, and he will be obedient.

4. Cultivate children's interests and divert attention

Children have many interests. Pay attention to tapping and cultivating children's interests. When a child does something he likes, he will devote himself wholeheartedly. At this time, after the baby's attention is diverted, he will not think about eating sugar all day. Family members should spend more time with their children. When you play with your children, their desire to eat candy will shift, and gradually, their children will no longer be overly attached to candy.

Second, how to help children protect their teeth

1. Help children develop the habit of gargling after meals

Parents should intentionally guide their children to gargle after eating or eating sugar. Children are interested in water when they are young. When you gargle with your children, you can let the water "grunt" in your mouth, so that children will be anxious to gargle next time. After a long time, children will develop the habit of gargling.

2. Get into the habit of brushing your teeth in the morning and evening.

Brushing your teeth also needs to arouse children's interest. The guiding method for children is to turn brushing your teeth into a game, and tell him to play a water jet game together, and then let him choose a toy for him to bathe. I will brush his teeth at the same time. After brushing, we will brush our toys together. In short, it is very difficult for Xiao Baobao to reason with them, but as long as they feel that they are playing a game, everything will be much happier. Slowly, when you brush your teeth, you can give your baby a children's toothbrush to imitate you. When he sees white foam coming out of toothpaste in his mouth, this chemical reaction will make the child interested in participating.

children eating sugar can be controlled, but it should not be stopped. Helping children protect their teeth should also be done slowly. In the process of educating and raising children, parents should help their children grow better through various methods. Parents, whether they are violent or cheating, can suppress their children's bad behavior for a while, but in the long run, this practice has little lasting effect and is unfavorable to the normal psychological development of children during their growth.

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