As the baby grows up, he has gradually mastered the ability to eat on his own. Considering the baby's gastrointestinal health and personality development, it is beneficial and harmless to let the baby develop good eating habits from an early age.
However, many parents are doing the following wrong feeding behaviors!
The first mistake: Afraid of dirty hands, prohibit the baby from grabbing food with his hands
The correct method: Wash the little hands and encourage yourself to eat
When you see your baby grabbing food with his little hands, the most common thing you hear is "Don't touch it, it's dirty!" instruction. However, babies begin to have the desire to learn to eat when they are about eight months old, so they always like to grab food with their hands. However, in daily life, the vast majority of parents always fight back their babies' urge to learn.
In fact, letting babies learn to eat has many benefits. It not only increases their interest in things, but also exercises hand-eye coordination and the development of small finger muscles. It can also increase the baby's self-confidence and sense of achievement. If you always push back the baby's outstretched hand of exploration, the baby will lose interest in learning, and eating will become a passive behavior.
The second mistake: watching TV, playing with toys, and feeding them into the mouth when they are not prepared.
The correct method: The environment should be quiet and focused.
The environment where the baby is eating should be as quiet as possible. Watching TV, playing games, and being crowded and noisy are not conducive to the baby's focus on food, and are not conducive to the communication between the feeder and the baby. Subtly, it will also reduce the baby's taste sensitivity to food and hunger and satiety ability. self-control and increase the tendency of obesity.
The third mistake: Use all threats and inducements, poor feeding and communication skills
The correct method: use more descriptive words and less commands
The environment should be quiet when eating, but this does not mean that you only feed without talking. On the contrary, it must be Communicate frequently. Although the vast majority of parents will communicate verbally with their babies during the feeding process, compared with ordinary questionnaire-type surveys, "eat quickly", "come on, open your mouth", "awesome" and "eating really well". The so-called communication between parents mainly focuses on the verb "eat", and 30% of parents still use imperative language.
For babies, the process of eating is actually an excellent opportunity to understand things and learn languages. If parents miss this opportunity, feeding their babies will cause some harm!
1. Leading to insufficient chewing function, affecting digestion and absorption
Children eating too fast and unable to chew food fully will not only increase the burden on the baby's gastrointestinal tract, but also affect the normal development of teeth, facial muscle exercise, and even affect the child's future appearance. There is a certain degree of influence.
2. Affects the development of movement balance and hand-eye coordination
Self-directed eating requires the mutual coordination of hands, mouth, and eyes. Parents feeding children will lose a good opportunity to train movement balance and hand-eye coordination.
3. It affects the control of appetite, making children more likely to be overweight.
Overfeeding may enlarge the child's stomach, causing obesity in children.
The above are some mistakes in baby feeding. If you want to get more knowledge about parenting, please feel free to consult Jiajia Yuesao.
