How To Teach Your Child To Eat Healthily
Are you looking for ways to help your child eat healthier? It can be tough to get kids to eat their vegetables, but there are a few tricks that can help. Check out these tips for teaching your child to enjoy healthy foods. You can help your child develop healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime with patience and persistence.
Water instead of soda
Teach your kids about clean drinking water. Never give them any juice or soda to quench their thirst. Only ordinary drinking water! And forget about sweet compotes after dinner or juices and buns for an afternoon snack. Better whole apples, berries, or oranges.
Regular, leisurely breakfast is important
Your child should eat meals throughout the day. A good way to start is by eating a healthy breakfast. It will give him energy for most of the day. Children with more energy during breakfast will do better in school. Breakfast also helps them not to be hungry later on, which means they will eat fewer calories. If a child does not have breakfast, he will be irritable, restless, and tired quickly.
The most important thing is never to push the child while eating. If you regularly wake up and eat breakfast on the go, there will be no benefit. Instead, train yourself to set the alarm clock 15-20 minutes earlier to have breakfast in a calm and friendly environment.
Don’t force a child to eat
Do not try to give your child a big portion of food as you would eat. Children have smaller stomachs and might not want or be able to eat all of them. If your child doesn’t eat enough, let him ask for more food instead of forcing him to eat everything on his plate.
Praise fruits and vegetables
If your child dislikes vegetables and eats little fruit, start teaching them from infancy. Involve them in the process of buying vegetables and fruits. Then help them wash, cook, or chop the food. Finally, put it on plates nicely and treat all guests and family members.
No gadgets and TVs for food
Never allow a child to eat in front of a TV or computer screen, with a phone or any gadget. It can cause them to lose control and eat hastily and thoughtlessly. They might not even taste their food, so they will eat more. It could lead to weight problems.
Catherine Medina is a content creator. She tries to promote a realistic, sustainable and positive image of how to lead a healthy life, whilst also maintaining the fact that life ain’t all fluffy clouds and rainbows. When she’s not writing or sitting on her arse scrolling through social media, she can be found running through muddy puddles, making lists of lists, having a good old moan, doing random searches and squatting like her life depends on it.
