To ensure the full development of your child, food is an essential part of its creation. Good nutrition in the preschool phase, up to five years, is essential for the child to grow healthy and develop their taste for healthy foods. Experts suggest that each phase of development is followed, without jumping stages, to avoid damage in the maturation of the child. Good nutrition, in addition to helping fight diseases, helps in various areas such as learning, coordination and even emotional. The food routine is much more important for the child than some parents imagine, so establishing this routine correctly is essential for your child to grow well.
The UN (United Nations Organization) defines as infant feeding that directed from the birth of the child to the full 19 years. In our text we are going to address food until the age of five. These are some simple tips that can help you take your doubts and make decisions that favor your child's health. We recommend, however, that all the food routine be accompanied by a pediatrician and a nutritionist, recommended by your child's pediatrician. As the child becomes more and more independent, especially after two years of age, it will follow a pattern established by the family, so that the eating pattern, the family routine, is important as long as the child is very small.
Current routine
Many are frightened and anxious when a child is born. The food issue is very controversial and everyone has opinions, grandparents, uncles, mother-in-law, for that reason, the accompaniment of a health professional is essential.
If taking care of an adult's food routine is already difficult in present times, infant feeding is not far behind. The accelerated pace, the day-to-day obligations and the full agenda make it difficult to have a balanced diet, with standardized schedules and food produced at home. We want, increasingly, fast foods to be ready and easy to make. The frozen ones gain space in our freezers. Fruits and vegetables, in turn, become scarcer, after all, who has time to cook, grill and prepare meals in such a short time?
"This thought can not take care of a Christian family, because comfort should not be characteristic of a Christian.
Do not let this routine remain the focus of your family. The love of our family implies a good diet precisely because it requires effort and dedication. Now that you have a family, you need to dedicate yourself more to it, and decrease your time and dedication to the novel, to barbecue with friends, to the videogame, to shopping, to football, to happy hour with friends from work, and that's why next.
The Bible tells us that the wise woman builds the home, and that includes setting an agenda, a schedule for the family to develop well in every way. The man, as the head of the home, needs to assume that responsibility as well. Husband and wife need to build their family so that everyone is healthy physically and mentally.
Simple tips
Some simple tips can be followed by all parents, regardless of whether your child is one or five years old. The first one is to worry less about the fact if the child eats all the food that is on the plate or not. More important is checking the child's weight, behavior and physical disposition (willingness to play).
Another suggestion highly recommended by experts is to avoid the separation between "children's plate and adult plate". The child needs to follow the pattern of adults, therefore, feeding your child well means feeding yourself well. Making hamburgers, instant or breaded noodles for children, while adults eat other things only encourages the child to want more and more inappropriate foods.
Of course, parents can make more colorful, interesting dishes and even interaction dishes, where the child puts the sauce in the meat, or choose the vegetables among several options, for example, but that does not mean that adults and children they will eat totally different dishes.
Parents need to stick to the ideal amount and proportion for each age group. It seems obvious, but some parents demand that a three-year-old child eat as much as a five-year-old child.
Another common mistake occurs with those who have more than one child, because comparing what a child ate at three years with what the other eats now is not fair. Each child has its individuality. The important thing is that your child is fed healthy food.
Do not pune your child with vehicles
It may seem like another obvious issue, but our attitude toward food directly reflects on how our son handles each type of food. (...) Offer sweets as a reward and demand that the child eat vegetables by obligation develops a concept (although unconscious, of course) that that food rich in sugar or fat is better, good, taste, as it is a reward, as compensation a food that must be ingested by obligation does not seem so good in the eyes of children.
Respect when your child says he is not hungry. Many parents, worried about the health of their child, do not perceive that forcing the child to eat when she does not want, makes the child not aware of himself in terms of satiety and hunger. However, respect the schedules. Avoid eating when it is not time to eat.
Different preparations and mutable palate
Do not be discouraged by an adverse reaction from your child to a certain food. Our palate is hurried and modified over time. No child appreciates a shrimp risotto, for example, as an adult, much less an arugula or watercress. Do not expect your child to love a passion fruit mouse when you try it for the first time. But that does not prevent you from using creativity to prepare these foods accompanied by others, in a more balanced combination. Also, remember that foods can be prepared in different ways. Nobody likes raw onions, but a sautéed onion to flavor a meat is a delight. For the rest, in them, adults, we have some preferences and do not love eating all kinds of food. The child can develop his own palate.
Maybe, your son does not appreciate escarole, or spinach, sautéed; but you can make an escarole pie. Beet, for example, has a remarkable taste and serving it raw in a salad may not be the best strategy for your child to eat beets. Try putting it in the bean, for example.
For many experts in infant feeding, a great suggestion for parents is that they develop in their child the initiative of always experiencing food, that is more important than forcing them to eat that or that. When a child learns to experience everything, he certainly develops a healthier palate.
Relax and have fun
The apprehension and nervousness with the obligation to make your child eat well can take away from you the possibility of transforming this moment into something pleasant for everyone. Calling the child to "cook" with you, ask for their help during the preparation of meals can develop in your child a taste for cuisine that surprises you. When cooking a carrot, accompanied by your child, make the moment fun, playful. Show that your opinion is important. Say things like "Ours, what a treat, it got ground, try!", Or "what you think of putting a little parsley here, it's going to be very good".
It is important for parents to let the child have fun with the food. Bagunzar the plate and have fun with food can make your child enjoy the moment of the meal. The maxim "with food is not played" is not accepted by most experts.
Finally, the variation of the dishes and ways of presenting the same food are fundamental for your child to perceive that the food is always something pleasant, different and surprising.
Despite all the joy and fun, do not break the routine of the meal schedule. Your child needs to understand that food has time, so your body gets used to the schedules, as it happens with the adult.