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Medical Video: I'M SO HUNGRY (Official Music Video)
Children (and adults) often use food for various reasons besides satisfying hunger. Feeding activities in children are often emotional and feelings responses to children.
If your child always complains of hunger, use the following tips to better understand what is happening.
What triggers hunger?
If your child eats balanced nutrition three times and snacks once a day but still claims to be hungry, there may be reasons other than hunger that makes him want to eat.
Ask yourself the following question:
- Does your child sometimes look for food when experiencing the following things? Bored, depressed, stressed, frustrated, feeling insecure, lonely, tired, hateful, angry, happy.
- Does your child eat at other times than regular meals and snacks? Does your child chew every time?
- Do you give your child a gift with food (does the A value in a child's test result sometimes lead to an ice cream gift)? This can inadvertently contribute to your child's obesity.
- When your child does something right, do you tell him? Words of praise can increase a child's self-esteem. They can also keep children motivated to make the right choices for health and weight.
- How do you talk to your child? Are there more negatives? Is it more often a criticism? It is difficult for anyone, including children, to make changes in such an environment
Healthy alternative
. If you suspect your child is eating only because of boredom, you may need to divert it to another activity.
Make sure your child eats food with balanced nutrition three times and snacks once a day. This will prevent feeling hungry between meals. Help your child choose other activities to do besides eating, such as:
- Inviting dogs to walk, playing chases, playing badminton, playing football, painting, playing skates, dancing, planting flowers in the garden, flying kites, taking a walk in the mall (without stopping at an ice cream shop) )
- Offer healthy snack foods such as raw vegetables, fruit, mild microwave popcorn / popcorn, and vegetable soup. Snacks such as chips and sweets have empty calories that cannot make your child feel full.
- Choose your child's snack. When children are allowed to choose their own snacks, they usually make unhealthy choices. Talk to your child why healthy snacks are important. Create and save a list of snacks that you and your child agree to.
