Because of parents’ mistakes, many children are scared when having meals.
Kids are anorectic – the cause is by
parents.
My neighborhood usually take place two
situations: in one family, a boy is in grade 2 but likes both eating and
playing, and his mother or helper still feeds him. Each meal lasts at least 1
hour, and they try feeding their son even foods are not as beginning condition.
In case of another family, everyone knows
when their baby has meal. Why? Because he cried loudly, that sounds like an
alarm showing that he is about to eat. After meal, he is usually getting red
because of his mother’s slaps. If he holds foods in mouth, she will slap him.
Then he cries and swallows foods. Continuously, hold – slap – cry circle
happens day by day.
Eating
is ranked one of four exciting things of life. But due to parent’s mistakes,
many children are afraid of it.
Eating is ranked one of four exciting
things of life. But due to parent’s mistakes, many children are afraid of
having meals. To help kids escape from scare, parents themselves must recognize
their mistakes.
Here are 5 popular mistakes of parents when
feeding children:
1. Consider foods as award
Do not use a type of food as an award for
another type of food. For example: “If you eat two bowl of rice, I will take
you to eat KFC” … That will make babies feel eating rice is a duty or
compulsion. And probably they will take their favorite foods to make condition to
parents next times. In addition, parents should not use foods to ease
children’s mood. If they are sad or angry, they will certainly not feel
delicious.
2. Allow babies to drink much carbonated or soft drink
Allow babies to use drinks containing high
calories, parents are supporting their children overweight and obesity.
Nibbling an apple or some grapes can make
kids hungry and more appetizing, instead of drinking a glass of apple juice or
grape juice. In addition, eating fruits also provides cellulose which is
helpful for children’s digestive system.
Allow
babies to use drinks containing high calories, parents are supporting their
children overweight and obesity.
3. Force babies to eat too much and finish their portion
In each age, energy’s demand of babies is
different and parents should provide moderate content of energy. If parents
force them to eat too much and finish their portion, they will be bored and
scare eating.
Children who are forced to eat much will
have high level of lipid in blood that leads to fatty liver disease. The
research showed that group of kids who are forced to eat has rate of obesity by
31.4%, rate of fatty liver 7.8% higher than others. Therefore, if they are full
or do not want to eat any more, you do not try to force them.
4. Both playing and eating
Kindergarten kids like discovering the
world, so they often spend time playing, discovering, and explaining things and
phenomena around them. Therefore, both playing and eating, together with less focus
on meals are common disease of kids.
The situation that children like to play
and quit eating usually happens with young parents because of their lack of
experience in education. The reason is parents do not know methods to help
their children eat correctly at the beginning; they often indulge children and
satisfy their requirements to force them to eat. There is no remedy for
situation of love playing in children, so you should change educational method
to help them eat more comfortably.
5. Eat fast foods too much
Children eating too much fast foods such as
potato chips, crackers, pizza, and so on before 3 years old will have lower IQ
than others. These foods can damage their intellect in long time later – as
research project of Bristol University stated.
Fast foods always attract babies but are
not healthy and nutritious foods. So you need to pay attention when feeding
your child those foods.
