Decalogue to make your child a good dining room
You can not avoid that chocolate tastes better than a plate of boiled vegetables or that a child always prefers a bag of trinkets to a salad. That is why many parents ask themselves, how can I do so that my son eat well? It is one of the great battles in the day to day at home that often ends in discussion with which it is intended to get the child to take the "green".
Therefore, from the Spanish Association of Pediatrics and Primary Care, AEPap, offers a decalogue that aims to guide parents in this classic battle that aims to get the little ones to learn to eat well and maintain a good diet:
Decalogue of the good dining room
1. A complete and balanced diet maintains health and prevents diseases. Children should be made to see that if they eat everything, they will have great advantages, such as being stronger and always being healthy so they can play and do whatever they want.
2. There are many flavors to discover. Why close only to the known? If they give an opportunity they will discover really tasty dishes that they will enjoy.
3. Five meals a day. Chopping between meals is a bad idea, and yes, waiting from breakfast to lunch, for example, can cause hunger that must be satiated. For this, nothing better than introducing two small meals among the most important of the day.
4. Parents too. Children learn from what parents do, if their diet is not the best, theirs will be the same. Try that the little ones imitate good actions at the table.
5. Breakfast. A good way to instill breakfast in children is to make them see that without it they will not have the energy to play at recess or learn in class.
6. The alternatives. Do not force a child to eat something he does not like, but look for alternatives. Do not like tomatoes? Well, there are other green options on the market that will surely be to your liking.
7. Teach the value of food at home. Many ads make children want to eat fast food franchises, before this advertising nothing better than highlighting the values of what is cooked at home.
8. Let him choose. Why not let the child choose what he wants to eat? If a menu is always imposed, it will tend to reject the constant obligation. Asking and trying to adapt your decision to a more nutritious perspective is not a bad idea.
9. No, you do not have to eat everything on the plate. Once your appetite is satisfied, you should not continue to force the child to continue eating, as this can even cause some harm in him.
10. At the table you eat. The smartphone is not a good companion on the table, or portable consoles or other devices that distract. The best way to prevent it is not allowing it from the first hour and of course, preaching by example.
Damián Montero
