How to train children to eat by themselves

Question 1: How do children support themselves? I often hear some parents complain that it is really difficult for children to eat, and they chase after them every day. If they don't feed them, they won't eat. It's really a headache. So is my two-year-old nephew. Every time I feed him, my sister-in-law chases after him and feeds him seriously. One begged carefully, while the other refused to eat. Every time my sister-in-law takes a bite, it seems like a total victory. A meal can sometimes be fed for an hour or two. I believe many people are familiar with such a scene. After feeding, adults are often exhausted, and villains are very disgusted with this spoon-feeding method, which even leads to anorexia. In 2000, when I was eight months pregnant, I went back to England to give birth and lived in my husband's sister Jia Lian's house. Her daughter Cameron is less than two years old. When we were eating, she sat in a high chair by herself, solemnly holding a bowl and fork. I thought it was just a trick to make her happy, but she really had dinner with us. Bowl is a large plastic bowl, probably to minimize the possibility of food falling to the ground; The fork is a plastic fork with a smooth top, which can avoid stabbing a small mouth; Rice is spaghetti with the same content as ours, only cut into pieces. She looks clumsy. Every time I send a fork of spaghetti with meat sauce to my mouth, I can't help but open my mouth for fear that she will feed it in the wrong place and want to help her. Of course, you will soon find that all the worries are unnecessary, and she enjoys eating alone so much. From time to time, she would stop and talk to herself, sip the juice in the cup comfortably, or knock on the edge of the bowl discontentedly to remind us of her existence. Such a small person has finished a meal without anyone's help. The high chair and the floor were covered with spaghetti fragments. Her little face was badly spent, but she looked happy and satisfied. I expressed my surprise to Jia Lian, but she didn't take it seriously. She also told me that since Cameron was seven or eight months old, she consciously fed herself small pieces of solid food, such as soft boiled carrots and broccoli, and then sliced bread and biscuits. At this stage, the main purpose of giving children food is not to make her full, but to cultivate children's interest in food and satisfy her curiosity. Slowly, you can give her a spoon when she is half full, so that she can enjoy eating while feeding. In this way, when Cameron 1 is over, he can almost finish a meal by himself. Jia Lian said that many parents like to talk about it, but my children don't like to eat it. In fact, whether children like eating or not depends largely on their parents' attitude. The biggest worry of many parents is that their children don't have enough to eat, so they always try their best to feed their children as much as possible. Even if their children have expressed disgust, parents are always persistent and will not give up until they reach their goals. This is actually a misunderstanding. Because children may not be able to speak, but it doesn't mean that they don't understand their own needs. Ignoring their ideas and blindly imposing the will of adults on them will often backfire. I thought it was better to listen to you than to study for ten years. Looking back at Cameron, a child under two years old, everything is so independent. I put on my socks and shoes awkwardly, packed my toys, and slept alone at night, never accompanied by adults. All this gives me a fresh feeling that children can still take it like this. Cultivate your daughter to eat by herself. My daughter was born safely in England. When she was two months old, we returned to China. According to Jia Lian's experience, I attach great importance to cultivating my daughter's independence, especially in diet. In order to make it easier for my daughter to eat independently, I bought her a high chair with a seat belt. Since she was 6 months old, I have put her in a high chair, and every time she eats snacks, I will give her some snacks by myself. She doesn't necessarily eat everything. Sometimes she will crush food with her hands and even make it everywhere. At this time, I will not be in a hurry with her. Because everything is seen and touched for the first time in her careful eyes, what a fresh feeling it should be! Then why do you mind her playing? In the process of playing, she is actually learning, learning to distinguish different colors, different shapes and different tastes. She is judging what she likes and dislikes. I don't usually force her to eat food she doesn't like, even if it is nutritious. Nutrition can be supplemented from other foods, but there is no way to make up for losing interest in food. By the time she is almost 1 year old, she can already eat noodles by herself ... >>

Question 2: How to correctly form the habit of children eating by themselves 1. Parents should not be picky about food.

Nowadays, children's family living conditions are too superior, and they can eat anything delicious, which can't arouse their interest in eating. Some parents restrict their children's activities everywhere, with too little exercise and little energy consumption.

Lack of hunger leads to loss of appetite. There are also some parents who improperly use some "nutrients", "health products" or "gunpowder removal", which may contain hormones. Thick tonics and bitter and cold drugs can also affect children's gastrointestinal tract.

Injury increases the burden of liver and kidney and affects children's appetite.

You know, parents' incorrect feeding behavior can also bring side effects: cajoling, bullying or reprimanding children during meals, making them feel unhappy.

Ok, I have a strong antagonism to eating, so I hate eating. Some parents discuss the problems of children's eating with others in front of their children, which has repeatedly strengthened their awareness that children don't like eating. Some parents help themselves.

Faced with the problem of partial eclipse and picky eaters, children have followed suit. Often parents don't like to eat, and children don't like to eat.

2, snacks constantly, lack of hunger

Children don't like to eat, sometimes it is a manifestation of self-awareness. The baby begins to have self-awareness after 1 year, and enters the first negative period after 1 year and a half. Refusing to eat and being picky about food is a sign that children emphasize their existence to adults and don't want adults to interfere with their freedom.

Moreover, partial eclipse and picky eaters will cause some nutrient deficiencies: trace elements and vitamins. For example, when "iron" is deficient, it is easy to suffer from iron deficiency anemia, digestive tract mucosa atrophy, and digestive function is weakened, leading to loss of appetite. The lack of "zinc" will affect the formation of taste, reduce the function of taste buds, and lead to decreased taste, anorexia or pica.

3. Encourage children to participate in pre-meal preparation.

If the child's appetite is poor, parents should first actively treat the primary disease and use drugs rationally, so that the child's appetite will gradually recover. Pay attention to provide a fixed, protected, comfortable and quiet feeding or dining place.

So that the children can concentrate. Parents should encourage children to help adults prepare before cooking according to the characteristics that children are willing to participate in anything. When eating, parents should set an example and praise their children's unwillingness to eat with words.

Food, and take the lead in tasting, deliberately make a look of relish, set a good example for children, and cultivate children to like to eat all kinds of food, but some foods with bitter taste and special taste don't have to be forced to eat.

If you prepare dinner with your children, of course, your children will be interested in tasting the fruits of their labor and even eat everything they have cooked. If parents let their children form this habit, then children will like to eat.

In this activity, they will feel that eating is a kind of enjoyment, they will begin to cherish their own cooking, and they will gradually cherish the dinner you have worked so hard to cook for them. In fact, parents don't have to coax their children, just let them experience it for themselves.

You will understand.

Children's bad eating habits are often caused by parents' negligence. To change children's bad eating habits, parents can refer to the above three practices. Parents should reasonably match their children's diet in daily life, and set an example in the process of diet to guide their children to develop healthy eating habits.

Question 3: How to make a 3-year-old child eat by himself? Question 1: Eat and play.

Cause analysis:

There are many reasons for children's bad habits of eating and playing, but to a large extent, it is because parents do not feed their children scientifically. For example, if the child is full, parents ask the child to finish the ration or add meals. Some parents indulge their children too much and do whatever they want; Some parents don't establish rhythmic living habits for their children, so they take their children to dinner in high spirits; Some families don't educate their children about table manners.

The right medicine:

When the child is about three years old, guide him to sit and eat, not to play while eating.

Don't force children to eat after they are full.

All family members abide by the table rules. For example, everyone pays attention to who hasn't sat at the table yet, so that children can feel that they are not only eating, but also enjoying the meal time happily and exchanging feelings while eating around the table. Try to eliminate the factors that cause children to play when eating, and try to stagger the time of watching TV and eating. This also requires parents to set an example.

Question 2: picky eaters

Cause analysis:

To some extent, children's picky eaters are a manifestation of the development of "self-awareness", indicating that children are beginning to learn to make their own decisions and want to choose food according to their own preferences. If children occasionally have an aversion or bad experience to a certain food because of physical reasons (discomfort or bad appetite), it may lead to rejection of a certain food. If adults indulge their children's diet too much, they will also develop the habit of picky eaters. Children's eating habits largely follow the family's eating habits, so when children are picky eaters, parents should think about whether they are picky eaters.

The right medicine:

1. Let children have the freedom to choose. Like adults, choosing food has its pros and cons. Children can have certain choices. How to let children choose? Here are some tips:

Create a warm dining atmosphere, put the dining tables together, and let the children choose their own tableware and seats. Communicate easily while eating.

For a certain food picky, mothers can adopt some suggestive tone or speaking skills (such as what to eat first and then what to eat, eat three or two bites, and eat with a certain dish), but allowing choices is by no means catering to children's picky eaters. Some parents often ask their children for advice in advance and ask them what good dishes they want to eat, which is undoubtedly teaching them to learn to be picky about food. This choice is usually allowed when children don't want to eat themselves.

2. If the child's appetite and food intake change due to physical reasons, don't show excessive worry and anxiety in front of the child, carefully observe and adjust the diet, and it will naturally get better after a while.

3. Always stimulate children's interest in food. Children can be inspired by short stories. For example, it is what they eat that makes them grow taller and become champions. So-and-so anime star likes to eat eggs and can cook them. Or parents use appreciative expressions to induce their children's appetite.

Careful mothers should change their food design and cooking skills as much as possible. When children don't like a certain kind of food, it is necessary to analyze whether there is something wrong with cooking. For example, don't repeat the same food for several days, the food must be changed, and the food that children like or dislike can be matched.

5. It varies from person to person, guides the situation and encourages it in time. Correct picky eaters when children have a good appetite.

Question 3: Eat less.

Cause analysis:

Insufficient exercise, less consumption, no hunger.

Eat too many snacks and drinks and have no interest in dinner.

It's true that the appetite is small. At the same time, children also have periodic adjustments during their growth. For example, a three-year-old child will have a small appetite for a while, which is a physiological adjustment.

The right medicine:

1. Let the children decide their own meals, and don't force them to complete the standard rations prescribed by their mothers. Let the children eat independently. Older children are allowed to choose their own meal time or set their own meal size.

2. You can invite your child's companion to dinner.

3. Limit snacks, one is quantity, and the other is time (no snacks one hour before meals).

Be sure to give your child a certain amount of exercise every day (promote blood circulation and help digestion).

5. For children who suddenly eat less, mothers should carefully observe whether they have stomach discomfort or emotional problems. Analyze the reasons and solve them pertinently.

Question 4: Eating slowly.

The right medicine:

1. Children are born with the character of "slow doctor", so parents don't have to urge them again and again.

Chewing slowly is a good thing, which is helpful for children's health.

3. The child has no appetite and stops eating ... >>

Question 4: How to train children to eat by themselves? Many parents are afraid that their children will eat slowly and their meals will get cold, and sometimes they will eat all over the table. Therefore, although the child is five or six years old, he is still breastfeeding. In fact, it is a leap from adults feeding children to children eating by themselves. As parents, children should be trained to eat by themselves. Children learn to eat by themselves, which can improve their interest in eating. Children aged 2-3 often say "eat by themselves", which is the expression of independent desire. On the psychological basis, they have the desire to learn to eat by themselves. Although he can't eat well, the spoon is wrong, and he even grabs it with his hands, he will be very happy when he finally eats food. So generally speaking, children aged 7- 10 months can try to take cups and spoons by themselves, eat with spoons by themselves at the age of 2, and train themselves to eat with chopsticks at the age of 4. In addition, children can learn to eat by themselves to train the fine movements of their hands, and using chopsticks is also a complicated coordinated movement. Through the coordinated movement of finger muscles, they can hold food with chopsticks and accurately send food into their mouths, thus training children's fine finger movements. When training their children to eat by themselves, parents can first teach them to hold the rice bowl with their left hand, and keep the correct posture when eating, and can't eat with their claws. Put the rice in your mouth, and then put the bowl firmly on the table. Everything is difficult at the beginning, so we must teach patiently. We can't simply do it, we can only master the skills of eating through children's repeated practice.

Question 5: How to cultivate four-year-old children to eat well by themselves, dietary guide for 3-4-year-old children:

Diet can also reflect children's differences. Children with a large appetite can eat 1 bowl and a half to 2 bowls of rice per meal; Children who eat less can only eat half a bowl of rice at a meal. 3, 4-year-old children's weight 1 year can only increase 1.5 to 2 kg, so it is normal for children to eat less, and partial eclipse will gradually appear.

Children in this age group gain about 1.5 ~ 2kg annually. Instead, the body length increased by 6 cm. In the eyes of the mother, the child does not seem to be fat at all. The average mother is always worried that her children don't eat much. However, if you eat according to your mother's wishes, you will overeat.

Children of this age are in the stage of rapid physical growth, and their heat demand is relatively higher than that of adults. They still have to guarantee 40 ml of milk every day, but if they drink 800 ml, they will be overweight. The consumption of milk can be increased or decreased according to the consumption of other foods.

Many children can use chopsticks and bowls by themselves after they are 3 years old. Anxious mothers often breast-feed their children because they eat too slowly. In this way, children will never use chopsticks again. The longer you eat, the less time you have to go out to play. If he can't finish it in half an hour, he will finish his meal.

Develop good eating habits

1, taste various flavors as soon as possible to prevent your baby from being picky about food. If you only eat a single food from an early age, your baby will not be used to eating foods that have not been eaten or are not often eaten, leading to partial eclipse.

2, protect the baby's appetite, sometimes the baby loves to eat too much at a time, easy to eat, and never want to eat again, leading to partial eclipse.

3, parents must first be picky about food, don't say in front of the baby that they don't like to eat certain foods.

Dietary arrangement principle

The diet is rich and varied. Nutritional balance is to give full play to the nutritional efficacy of various foods and improve the physiological value and absorption and utilization rate of various nutrients. Give your baby all kinds of food, pay attention to the types of food, and alternate coarse grains, flour and rice and vegetarian dishes to ensure a balanced diet.

Pay attention to scientific diet. Avoid giving your baby too greasy and hot and sour food; Food should be moderate in hardness; Less salt and more salt for a long time will have adverse effects on the kidney and cardiovascular system; Don't eat too much sugar and foods with high sugar content, because too much sugar will affect appetite, and excess sugar will be converted into fat, causing obesity and easily causing dental caries.

Three meals a day plus one extra meal. In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks should be added in the afternoon or evening, which can not only supplement the baby's nutritional needs, but also prevent overeating from affecting appetite.

Baby's daily diet arrangement

Breakfast recipe, steamed bread, beef sauce, shredded carrot.

Have fried rice with eggs and winter melon soup for lunch

Add formula milk or yogurt snacks

Dinner rice noodles, cucumber fried pork liver, tofu and egg drop soup

I hope the above content will help you!

Question 6: How to cultivate children's habit of eating by themselves? Then stop grandma's breastfeeding, which is the most critical and difficult point. It is suggested that grandma should be aware of the seriousness of the current problem and cultivate her children's independent ability. Overindulgence is poison, not love. -Mom, online college.

Question 7: How to cultivate children's ability to eat by themselves? My method is:

If children can help themselves with spoons.

Then give him a small table, eat it yourself, get dirty and take it to the floor. It's okay. After several exercises, he will gradually stop soiling clothes and floors.

Question 8: It has been solved-how to let the 3-year-old children eat by themselves? The baby at home refuses to eat well during meal time, which has a lot to do with the parents' own attitude. "Hungry and hungry" is everyone's innate instinct. If the child is really hungry, there will be no problem of refusing to eat. Therefore, most of the reasons for the baby's "refusal to eat" come from wanting to compete with parents for rights. Because parents don't understand and worry about their children's refusal to eat, smart children will seize their parents' weaknesses and use the behavior of not eating as a bargaining chip with their parents. Teacher Ou Zixiu said that in the face of such problems, parents should have the ability to know their children's real needs and understand their behavior, so as to correctly handle the problem of children refusing to eat. Parents should avoid attitudes Parents should not let their children feel worried and anxious about his refusal to eat, and should also avoid the following attitudes: 1. There are too many snacks stored at home: if children keep eating snacks, they will naturally not be able to eat them when it is time to eat, and what is more serious is malnutrition. 2. Let the children eat and play: As a result of eating and playing, the time for eating will be extended. It's time for the next meal. The baby is not hungry. Of course, he refuses to sit down and eat. 3. Unpleasant eating time: Many professional parents will unconsciously ask their babies to eat faster when they are busy with work or work, which will make their children have an unpleasant experience of "eating" and thus exclude eating. 4. Treat it in an induced way: If parents invite their children to eat in an induced way, over time, they will let their children take "eating" as an exchange condition, which will lead to their values of achievement. The secret of making children like to eat 1. Adults form correct eating habits by themselves. Children's imitation ability is extremely strong. If adults' own eating habits are abnormal, or they often wrap their stomachs casually with snacks, there is naturally no reason to ask children to follow regular eating habits. 2. Try to make it a habit for the whole family to eat at the dinner table as soon as it is time to eat, and stipulate that children must finish their meals by themselves. If the child hasn't finished eating, don't give him snacks even if he is hungry in the future. Over time, children will develop the habit of timing and quantification. 3. cut down on food other than dinner. Although it is necessary to give snacks, you should not overdo it. In particular, junk food should not be given as much as possible, so as to avoid children eating more snacks and eating dinner "putting the cart before the horse". 4. Promote children's appetite. Of course, if children are not hungry, they can't eat. If parents just force their children to eat blindly, it will be counterproductive. Try to promote the child's appetite, such as increasing his activity, and his stomach will really feel hungry. Naturally, he won't resist eating. 5, buy children's favorite tableware, children like to have their own unique things, buy some lovely tableware for children, can improve children's desire to eat, if you can buy with children, you can achieve better results. 6. Pay more attention to changing dishes. In the case of a balanced diet, parents can replace the simple rice and noodles they eat on weekdays with a variety of foods. For example, sometimes you can have a nutritious meal with potatoes as the main dish and some vegetables. 7. Let children participate in the process of cooking, such as going to the market to buy food, helping to take it home, and washing fruits together. You can even ask your children's opinions and ask them to help you cook, so that children can not only have a sense of participation, but also know every step before cooking a dish and then enjoy it more. 8. Add spice to eating.