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Okay, that headline needs to be “Toddler Feeding Hacks that Truly Work Higher” as a result of I must degree set that I’m not a magician and children are tough! However I’ve been considering quite a bit about how my third child fully modified my perspective on feeding toddlers. He, in contrast to his sisters earlier than him, was a lot tougher to feed as a result of he wasn’t as motivated by the pure style of meals.
With the ladies, it hadn’t actually mattered how I served or plated a meal—they ate it in the event that they favored it! Which meant that simply after I thought I knew what I used to be doing with feeding children, I needed to be taught an entire new method.
I bear in mind attempting out strategies I examine from a number of feeding therapists, which primarily was studying how one can be little extra considerate with how I provided meals and the way I anticipated him to eat it.
It was fairly the educational curve—however amazingly, it additionally wasn’t really that rather more work.
And it didn’t imply that I began cooking him separate meals or that I used to be “catering” to him. It didn’t imply that I used to be leaping via hoops or turning all of his meals into humorous shapes or critters. And I nonetheless wouldn’t name the best way he ate as a toddler “choosy”. He was merely a special child who wanted a special method.
Most of what I discovered to do was partaking him with the meal and the meals so he felt extra invested within the expertise—and had extra company. And some years later, these are the small issues we do at meals that also assist him discover curiosity in a meal when his preliminary response is a giant fats NO THANK YOU.
Amazingly, none of those even have something to do with recipes or particular meals!
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