You’re not alone: getting your children to eat should clearly be considered an Olympic sport.
Although his disgruntledness, despair and overall exhaustion were apparent, I couldn’t help but wonder: Would things be easier if he just… let go? And how bad was the not eating, really? His son is a sweet, loving, beautiful, perfectly adjusted and well-fed-looking child. Was Sean just being dramatic?His distress rubbed off on me.
That being said, as O’Shea acknowledges herself, a lot of paediatricians suggest offering kids food as early as four months old to decrease the risk of allergies. “The idea is not to give a large amount of food during this time but to introduce foods and get your baby accustomed to eating,” she explains.
Let’s be clear. It is absolutely normal for your baby to take some time to adjust to different sorts of food textures. Do you remember when you first tried jelly or a tapioca drink? It probably took your adult palate a few bites and tries to get familiar with their fairly odd consistency. Now measure your child’s palate-related discomfort with that in mind.
The expert also noted something that seems to be directed at my own mother. “Kids use their hands to feel the food and play with it. They look at it and smell it too to take it all in,” she says. “This is messy! Parents who are neatniks find this hard but it is an important process in learning to eat.” See, Mom?
Snacks, of course, are an important topic to discuss as well. O’Shea suggests only giving kids snacks if they’re going six hours or more between meals or if they are in “big growth phases” – which you would notice if they happen to be eating their food well at mealtime. Aside from the “techniques” mentioned above, there are other go-to tips that paediatricians and nutritionists always mention, from setting up family mealtimes to offering the same food at least 10 times before deciding your child will never eat it.
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