How to correct children's picky eating habits? What should we do if children are picky eaters?

Nowadays every child is the baby of the family. Our love for children is care, warmth, and endless demands on them. Picky eating is a common problem among all children nowadays. Today we will learn together how to correct children's picky eating habits.

How to correct children's bad habits of picky eating

1. The temptation of delicious food. You must have the ability to cook delicious food. Colorful food is the most attractive to children, and of course the fragrance can also arouse children's appetite.

2. What if you are not good at making this kind of food? We can use the combination of dishes. It is also using colors to attract children's attention, which is relatively much simpler than making it directly.

3. Eating snacks is the favorite thing for children. However, eating too many snacks often makes children lose their appetite, and at the same time makes children malnourished and causes them to become obese or thin. Therefore, we should try to control children's snacks and let them eat more meals and fruits.

4. Sports and games are the best and most direct ways to help children digest and absorb. Spending more time playing with your children outdoors can not only make you closer to them, but also increase their appetite and make them more receptive to food.

What to do if your child is picky about eating

1. Parents should establish correct dietary concepts:

Children's picky eating is related to adults. Some parents are picky eaters themselves. They don't let their children eat what they don't like. Eight-year-old children listen to their parents very much, which will undoubtedly make children picky eaters.

2. Diversify your food:

Some parents cook very monotonously, with few varieties of food and poor taste. Adults don't like it, let alone children. As parents, we should take the initiative to learn cooking knowledge and make the food look, smell and taste good. Some vegetables can be cooked in snacks for children to eat!

3. Control your child’s snacks:

Snacks are the main reason why children are picky eaters. Nowadays, food comes in a wide variety and rich colors, and children like it at first sight. Children's stomachs are so big, and if they eat too many snacks, they will definitely become picky eaters.

4. Real-time on-site education:

Verbal preaching is often ineffective. Children who are picky eaters will definitely have a bad impact, such as constipation and weight loss. Parents can use illness to educate their children and let them understand the harm of being picky eaters. For example, if a child wants to be an astronaut when he grows up, parents can say: Astronauts must be in good health and cannot be picky eaters. Some children will change their picky eating habits.

5. Regulate the child's spleen deficiency:

Some children grow very thin, have spleen deficiency, poor appetite, and poor absorption of nutrients from food, which will undoubtedly increase picky eating. Parents can take their children to a Chinese medicine doctor for diagnosis, regulate the spleen deficiency, improve the child's appetite, and gradually improve the picky eating problem.

6. Don’t chase your child to feed him:

Many parents are always worried that their children will be hungry, so they chase their children to feed them. When the children don't want to eat, they have to chase them to feed them. At this time, the children have no feeling and no appetite, which will cause the children to have food accumulation and gastrointestinal disorders. When children are hungry, they will naturally think of eating, and parents don't need to chase them to feed them.

What are the reasons why children are picky eaters?

1) Parental indulgence

If parents always meet the child's dietary preferences and even give the child more of the food he likes, the child's taste requirements will become higher and higher. If parents always meet the child's dietary requests, the child's taste will become higher and higher, and the child will only pick the delicious food he likes.

2) Eating too many snacks

Many parents are afraid that their children will not eat enough, so they prepare a lot of snacks for their children between meals. You should know that if children eat too many snacks, it will cause the gastrointestinal digestive juice to continue to secrete, and the gastrointestinal tract will lack the necessary rest, which may eventually lead to weakened digestive function and decreased appetite.

3) Eat and play

It is a common problem for many children to play while eating or even watch TV while eating. Toys and cartoons may distract children from eating, and their appetite will naturally decrease.

4) Doing everything for your child makes them lose interest in eating

When children have a certain degree of self-care ability, but parents still feed them, this will make children feel that eating is a boring thing and they will become picky eaters.

5) There is something wrong with my parents’ cooking skills

When your child is picky about food, check your cooking skills, which may be the direct cause of your child's picky eating. In addition, if you cook the same meals for a long time, your child may get bored.

6) Irregular eating times

If the eating habits are suddenly changed and the child is fed right after waking up or finishing a game, and the preparation is not sufficient and the digestive juices are insufficiently secreted, it will affect the child's digestive function and easily cause picky eating.

7) Parents are bad role models

Maybe the parents themselves are picky eaters and don’t eat this or that at the table, and the children follow suit and become picky too.

8) The child is in a bad mood

During or before a meal, has the child experienced any stressful events? Did the parents have an argument at the table? Children may be stressed while eating, which may lead to a loss of appetite and may also induce picky eating.

The dangers of picky eating in children

It is very common for children to be partial to food and picky eaters, which makes many parents feel headache. Because picky eating is not just that children do not cooperate with meals and do not eat enough, there are many harms behind it! Among natural foods, no food contains all the nutrients needed by children. If children only prefer certain foods, the nutritional intake will naturally not be comprehensive enough and cannot meet the physiological needs of the body. If you don't like to eat certain foods, you may lose the source of essential nutrients for the body. For example, many children do not eat kelp, which is a good source of iodine, so it is difficult for them to get comprehensive nutrition. In addition, picky eating will also affect the gastrointestinal health of children. Children who are partial to food and picky eaters generally cannot maintain a good appetite and optimal eating state in the process of choosing food. This will affect the normal peristalsis of the digestive tract and the secretion of digestive juices, which is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of food. In the long run, picky eaters will not only be thinner than children of the same age, but their physical health will also be seriously affected. Parents must face up to their children's bad eating habits and correct them as soon as possible. Indulge your child's partiality and beware of skin diseases in infants and young children!