Having the kids to eat or take meal properly and on time is one of the tasks and challenges of every parent. However, sometimes, the parent might facing the situation that the children don’t want to eat and open their mouth, and even refuse to come close to dining table. This really made the parent feel frustrated, and have no idea how to resolve this situation.
According to some experts, these could be due to the meal time is not on time, or the timetable or rhythm of life is not on schedule, so the children could be either too hungry or not hungry when meal is ready. And, some of the children could be too picky.
And, more important, please not to feed the children with snack for fruit before meal time. If not, their little stomach could be still fill up and have not space or not feel hungry when meal time is arrived.
The ideal of snack time is one hour or one and a half hour before any meal time. If not, the parent will face power struggling and tough section again during their meal time.
And, don’t feed the children while they are watching T.V. The children could be distracted from food, but attracted by T.V or toys, thus they might not even open their mouth or swallow or digest slow. So, let’s make meal time a proper time to taste, eat and enjoy food rather than doing so many things in one time.
Third, the kids might not feeling well or have some Ascaris /worms or parasites in their intestinal system. This will made the children don’t want to eat and not feeling hungry or stomach not feeling well. Thus, they will refuse to eat or take meal.
In this case, kindly go and look for pharmacist/ medical practitioners and check if the child need to take any parasite medicine or not. In fact, most of the pharmacists suggest the children below 7 to take the parasites medicine regularly, every three months as a preventive measure.
Just try to identify the pattern of eating of the children, the parent will sure know what’s the factor caused the child doesn’t want to eat, and solve it.
Make the meal time the happy time of the family, rather than a power struggling or angry section of the family instead!
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As a mother the biggest and the most time taking task for me is feeding my son. This is something which is like a burden on my shoulders after every few hours.
I agree to your point that feeding while watching TV is not advisable. But this is my only lifeline. If he is not engrossed in television or tablet he will not open his mouth for sure.
I really wish i will find a solution soon.
hi Dr. Kikol, I have no T.V and no tablet at home only smart phone. But, my 8 year-old daughter might love to read while eating. We will scold her and warn to take away her meal.
Because, we want her to taste, appreciate and enjoy the real food. Your kids might be a little younger, but only serve him food when he is hungry, maybe can help to push him to eat faster or open his mouth. :)
And, compete with other same age peer can help the kids to build up good habit too, maybe it will help when he is entering the kinde next year! All the best!