Family Tips

For the beginning, you should understand that it is impossible and unnecessary to force the child to eat diverse food. Try to understand, that the choice of your child to eat only this, instead of any another food, first of all, is his or her own choice. Try to look from the other point of view - the child learns to make the first choice in the life. And you try to force him or her to eat what the child does not want or can not eat in such amount. Frequently in further these children have eating disorder - they simply do not know, when they should stop eating or the meal starts to be associated with some obligations and something unpleasant. Your aspiration to force the child will have an effect further. Your child will be simply less open to new gustatory senses in the further life.

It may be so that you are not ready yet that your child will be in order, if he or she eats only cracker and washes down it with water all the day. You cannot expect from the kid eating balanced and useful food each time. If you are disturbed with his or her habits, simply start to write down that your kid eats. You will be surprised that your child has all necessary food groups in course of some weeks, instead of at one sitting. So, he can eat only fruits one week, only meat – the other week.

You also should understand that your expectations of the necessary amount of food are not always correct. Take your dietary intake, divide weight of your body into weight of the child and you will understand that usual portions are huge for your kid. Two-three pieces of bread for the five years’ old kid are equivalent to 15 pieces for an adult.