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Feeding Toddlers
Like most parents I struggle a lot trying to get my toddler to eat. Some days she is fussy, others I wonder if her last teeth are coming through causing her pain, sometimes I wonder if she has filled up too much on snacks etc. It can become a battle but there are several tips I have found to try and help:- Eat with your toddler – you are their role model, if they see you doing something, they are likely to copy.
- Make meal and snack times regular and don’t give snacks just before a meal.
- Try to avoid giving meals when they are tired.
- Stay positive – if you are, it is more likely to rub off on your little one.
- Avoid distractions like the TV.
- Offer finger foods; toddlers like to do things for themselves and it encourages them to be independent.
- Let them help in simple food preparation or laying the table, this will involve and interest them without putting pressure on them.
- Keep trying, just because they refused something once, doesn’t mean they will next time.
- Children won’t starve themselves, if they don’t eat what you have given them, don’t go and cook a whole new meal or give a sweet treat, just offer fruit.
- Try and make food attractive – arrange in the shape of an animal, a face etc. Toddlers enjoy colourful fun food.
Hope these help and good luck.
Claire xx
