Eating should be fun activities because it can taste a variety of delicious food. However, sometimes this does not apply to children. At a certain age children often have trouble eating difficult, which could have been caused because it is more interested in toys, bored on certain foods, and others.
"Children are the most commonly experienced problems difficult to eat normally are at preschool age (4-6 years), and the number reached 33.6 percent," says Dr. Tatang Pusponjono, SpA, in the seminar on "challenges and solutions for Difficult Children eating" in Jakarta, some time ago. Tatang reveals, there were three difficult problems children eat most often experienced.
1. picky eating
Children who love picky picky eater or food is a big problem for the elderly. Typically, the child will refuse consuming foods with aroma, texture, flavor, and shape. "However, for various reasons the food benefits, parents often force the child to want more," he added.
When forcing the children to eat foods that are not preferred, usually children will produce a certain reaction, such as excessive vomiting. Tricks that can be done to overcome this is by mixing up foods that are not well liked child with other materials. For example, when the children do not like broccoli, you can cut the broccoli in a very small size and mix it with other foods.
Read also: Parent Attitude that makes Children so "Picky Eater"
2. the child does not want to eat
Ideally children are conditioned to eat three times a day. However, this turned out to be not that easy to do because they often indicate fear of food and refused to eat.
Need some special tricks to persuade children that are difficult to eat, because they would be crying and refusing to open my mouth when eating. One way to overcome this is by serving food in forms that favored children. In addition, you can also bring a wide variety of food and colorful to attract his attention.
3. Eat the least amount of
Have an active child is not always fun. Because it is usually an active children tend not to bother with a portion of the dining room. "Active Children tend to look like never hungry, not a tasteful meal, and could not be silent when the need to eat," explains Tatang.
Often You must pursue child to feed him. This is because he is more interested in the world of the play rather than the food. Tatang, adding a typical active child usually has a low appetite, and his attention very easily sidetracked from food.
"Children are the most commonly experienced problems difficult to eat normally are at preschool age (4-6 years), and the number reached 33.6 percent," says Dr. Tatang Pusponjono, SpA, in the seminar on "challenges and solutions for Difficult Children eating" in Jakarta, some time ago. Tatang reveals, there were three difficult problems children eat most often experienced.
1. picky eating
Children who love picky picky eater or food is a big problem for the elderly. Typically, the child will refuse consuming foods with aroma, texture, flavor, and shape. "However, for various reasons the food benefits, parents often force the child to want more," he added.
When forcing the children to eat foods that are not preferred, usually children will produce a certain reaction, such as excessive vomiting. Tricks that can be done to overcome this is by mixing up foods that are not well liked child with other materials. For example, when the children do not like broccoli, you can cut the broccoli in a very small size and mix it with other foods.
Read also: Parent Attitude that makes Children so "Picky Eater"
2. the child does not want to eat
Ideally children are conditioned to eat three times a day. However, this turned out to be not that easy to do because they often indicate fear of food and refused to eat.
Need some special tricks to persuade children that are difficult to eat, because they would be crying and refusing to open my mouth when eating. One way to overcome this is by serving food in forms that favored children. In addition, you can also bring a wide variety of food and colorful to attract his attention.
3. Eat the least amount of
Have an active child is not always fun. Because it is usually an active children tend not to bother with a portion of the dining room. "Active Children tend to look like never hungry, not a tasteful meal, and could not be silent when the need to eat," explains Tatang.
Often You must pursue child to feed him. This is because he is more interested in the world of the play rather than the food. Tatang, adding a typical active child usually has a low appetite, and his attention very easily sidetracked from food.
