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As a parent of two, I can tell you that getting your child to sit still for 5 minutes isn’t an easy task, especially when he is growing up from a toddler to a school age kids.
Your child is always exploring things around him, not to mention the food that he had never tasted before.
Eating junk food is fun for a child but not healthy food.
Getting your child to sit and eat a well balance healthy meal without squirming and being picky about this and that, is alike “pulling a cow up to a tree”, simply Mission Impossible.
Regardless of obstacle that parents had encountered during meal time every day, it is important to understand that your child should be adequate healthy food because your child is growing day by day.
Sometimes, you may worry when your child is beginning to eat less than before.
Don’t worry much.
He will look for food when he is hungry.
Don’t keep feeding him too much food which can encourage your child into eating junk food and lead him to childhood obesity.
Adult obesity is often linked to childhood obesity where parents failed to control his bad eating habits that got out on the control and became severe.
Thereto, as a parent, you should try to implement healthy eating habits in your child since young, help him to grow up healthily.
Now tell me, what parent would want his/her child to have obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, cancer and high cholesterol when he/she becomes as adult?
Nobody is a witch to his/her own child.
Give him tasks that he can handle by himself with supervision but don’t nag at him.
Let him wash the lettuce, vegetables under running tap water.
Teach him how to drain them , that is a technique to teach him about balancing the veggies from flowing out of the colander.
Let him break up cabbages or mash up the thick stems with his fist.
My son loved this task very much.
He loved to imitate how the waitress set up dining table when we dine out.
Teaching him to pick up the number of fork, spoons, chopsticks according to the number of family members.
He even set the size of the spoon and fork according to the age of family members. The biggest spoon belonged to daddy!
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Suggest colorful vegetables such as carrots, green peppers, pumpkins and eggplants, rather than boring green leafy vegetables on the menu list.
Multi-grain food, mixed nuts and seasoning in wide range of variety of food categories.
Encourage your child to make funny faces on the prepared food such as sushi, pancakes, stamp out sandwiches or egg bread with cookie cutters.
You could start off with glaze of honey , sharing up the eyes, nose and crooked smile on the pancake.
Your child will follow suit with his own creative faces.
Conclusion:
Treat food preparation as a whole family affair, not just a job for mom only.
Allow your child to explore the kitchen, except for the knives and dangerous items.
Always supervise your children under watchful eyes but don’t scream at them when anything goes wrong.
You will scare them off with your frightening voice.
Give them a piece of advice, in a calm manner and with reasons.
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I am fortunate since neither of my children are picky eaters. They love veggies and fruits and I try to keep them on hand for them. My son doesn't really like raw veggies but will eat them cooked. He will try new things at least once and he is often surprised when he actually likes them. My daughter sometimes doesn't eat very much during a period of time and other times will eat like there is no tomorrow. I know that she is going through growth spurts at this time so I let her be and I don't try to force her to eat. She will eat when she is hungry.
@morgoodie, You are lucky for having nice children not giving parents problem during dining. Children usually prefer foods cooked with meat, too sugary and cold drinks.These foods are harmful to children's body.I seldom see children like to eat vegetables at home.
Nothing comes easy even eating
it was really tasty at all if only I knew the recipe to make sure I would sell it in order to generate money.
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Some children are so delicate in having food to eat. In some point, it is a challenge for them to eat veggies. I go with what you had mentioned about having colorful meal. It is so inviting for kids and even creativeness in making alphabets-shaped veggies can also work and educational for them too.
We did all of this when our girls were little, and for the most part, they are healthy eaters now as they are growing into young women. With our son, it has been more of a challenge because of his disability. But even he is now making a lot of healthy food choices.
Getting kids involved, making food fun, and letting them see others eat good foods are so important.
@morgoodie/
oh you are so lucky!
My kids are quite fussy about food.
They both hated celery but like other veggies.
My teenager is a bit easier to fir with any meal.
I think it is because she had grown up, eats a LOT, she could eat buns after a heavy dinner.
My boy is the most fussy one.
So, I get him to help me out with washing the dirty dishes, washign the fruits and veggies.
He wanted to help out cutting with knife but I can't.
If anything goes wrong, my hubby would be scolding me like hell.
@stbrians/
Yup, nothing is easy, eating is hard to especially the person who prepares and cook 3 meals a day !
@irvanramadhan/
you can make local kuihs ( sweet cakes ) , sure to be selling like hot cakes especially this month !
@shavkat/
thanks for your share.
Yes, stamp out fruits, veggies like carrots are likeable for kids.
They love colorful food.
Give them plain green veggies on the plate, he would push it away.
If you mix in potatoes, carrots, long beans and chicken fillets, rainbow colors in a plate, he would be very willingly to finish them up
@ruby3881/
I agree with you.
Getting kids involve with food preparation will help them to understand better why mommy cooking the kitchen is hard work.
Nothing is easy.
They also understand about why you have to do this and that, what are the benefits of this and that veggies, a lot of educational value they can learn that school doesn't teach them.
My son enjoys setting up the dining table very much.
he said that is his job, nobody could steal it
I completely agree children should be taught by their parents while they are still young. It becomes harder to learn and change as we grow older and people are more capable of getting into the habit in their first years.
However, it is not always an easy task as every child has his own temper and should be treated individually.
Involving the child in Mom's activity should bear results.