Contents:
- Medical Video: 7 Parenting Tips to Deal With a Naughty Child
- Tips to easily feed toddlers
- 1. Start the day with real food
- 2. Make foods that are easy to eat
- 3. Create foods that can be enjoyed by the whole family
- 4. Choose foods that your child likes
- 5. Make a varied food menu
- 6. Serve food with an attractive appearance
- 7. Create a regular meal schedule
- 8. Make healthy sweet snacks
Medical Video: 7 Parenting Tips to Deal With a Naughty Child
Feeding a toddler is practically difficult. Some may be all eaters, while others are fond of picky food. Here are some tips to make your toddler eat easier without fuss, and also more hearty.
Tips to easily feed toddlers
1. Start the day with real food
Breakfast is a meal time to start your day and your little one. Prepare foods that are easy to cook or that can be served quickly, but which are still healthy. For example, low-sugar yogurt, a piece of cornmeal that is peanut butter, oatmeal with an additional topping that your baby likes, fruit or eggs
2. Make foods that are easy to eat
At the age of one year, toddlers usually like food that they can hold and eat on their own. You can try feeding your toddler with matchstick-boiled carrots, cut bananas, whole-grain bread slices, or boiled potato slices.
3. Create foods that can be enjoyed by the whole family
Cook or prepare food that can be eaten by all family members. This is the best advice for feeding children.
Don't cook foods specifically for toddlers, but cook for your whole family and pay more attention to the nutritional value of food. In this way, your child will be more happy to eat because seeing the food he eats is not differentiated.
4. Choose foods that your child likes
Engage your child when choosing the food you want to cook. You can ask him, "what food do you want to eat today?". Usually children will be more eager to eat if they eat the food they really like.
5. Make a varied food menu
Your child can get bored with the same food menu every day. Make a more varied food menu for your little one. This is also useful for improving your baby's nutrition, because the more varied foods you provide, the more nutrients you can get.
6. Serve food with an attractive appearance
Serve food for your little one with an attractive or funny look. You can decorate the food with his favorite cartoon characters. That way, your child will be more eager to eat.
7. Create a regular meal schedule
Apply a routine eating schedule for your little one. That way, he will get used to eating at the same time and regularly. Making this meal schedule will also help his diet when he grows up later.
8. Make healthy sweet snacks
Serve healthy and nutritious sweet snacks for your little one. For example, popsicles made from milk and filled with pieces of fruit, or low-sugar chocolate biscuits.
You can also invite him to make this snack together. Ask your child to determine what snack he wants himself. By involving your child in preparing food or cooking, this can help increase his appetite.
