As my wife mentioned, over the weekend we attended a seminar regarding children being picky eaters. It gave me a whole new prospect of how children eats.
The expert gave us the rules of thumb: WWW
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1) When to eat?2) What to eat?
3) Where to eat?
All three points above are decided by the parents, but the child decides how much to eat. But of course there are many other factors that we have to control too, for example: there should not be distractions like TV during meal time, just concentrate meal conversations.
I now understands that children's eating pattern is not the same as the adult. As long as they remain healthy and active with no weight loss, I'll just have to let them be, because he said we have to have a neutral attitude. I just have to ensure she keeps chewing.
Another point he mentioned is to limit the time spent on taking the meals, 45 mins at most, after that, the plate will be taken away. The child will have to wait for the next meal, even if he's still hungry. But my problem is Isabel won't tell us she's hungry!
I'm taking his advise and now we're trying it out, one thing I notice is that I'm less stressful during meal time, and food seems to taste better now.
9 comments:
so good ha daddy & mummy, attend seminar to know more on kids eating habit!
"the child decides how much to eat" ..i guess i've been neglecting this fact, more often than not, i'm stuffing food to him as i'm worried (again) he might be hungry...:X thanks for sharing..:)
really a tedious process hor feeding children... except what they like to eat :)
Thanks for sharing! Have learn something from your post.
The expert said kids should decide on how much they eat, OK agree! But did they mentioned we could still give them more milk if they want? Or just starve them until they want to eat the meal again?
To Jefferene: Well, he said the idea is to let the child learn about meal time, so the child should not be given alternative choice.
take it away after 45 mins is so right! i do that to her coz i want her to know that its she has to wait for another meal time to eat and food is not gona wait for her all day!
good luck to u and wifey!
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There are actually seminars like this.. Wow.. how did you know about it?
I guess it's true.. we normally dictate all these when, what, how much.. And then when the child doesn't respond according to our plan, we say they are picky.. *sigh*..
The concept is well known, but it's hard to remember and practice it. :P
Our meals to bb is always less than 45 mins and only 3 times a day but he is still a very picky eaters. Sometimes only take tiny bits of solid but glad that he drinks more milk this time round.
oo, thanks for the tips. :P I guess we adults just want it our ways that is the problem! hmmm..
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