Once commented, two days ago, that children know how much they need to eat I will come to explain the recommendations so that all children eat and grow normally in case there are still moms who continue to doubt the abilities of the children.
There is a very wise phrase that says: "There is no animal on the face of the earth that dies of starvation having food within reach."
Extrapolating it to our children would be a way of saying that, even if it seems that he does not eat anything, he is eating and that, as long as he has food before him, he will not be malnourished.
Let's go with the recommendations that we should take into account when offering complementary food to a child:
We must give them small quantities without forcing. The first days, above all, the act of eating is destined more for children and food to be known than for something else. The touch makes the affection (they say) and in the first appointments it is not convenient to go “to sack”.
Little by little, after the days, he will eat a little more (or not). We must respect their hunger or their lack of it (and this recommendation applies to all ages, whether 6 months or 12, 2 years or 5) and if you turn your head, squeeze your mouth or spit out food because you don't want more we should stop offer
No planes, nothing "is for mom and is for grandma", nothing more than two tablespoons and I leave ... If he doesn't want more, it's because he doesn't need more.
Think for a moment of the typical meal at the house of that mother-in-law, grandmother or acquaintance, who fills the dishes to infinity and beyond. That home where you hate to go to eat because if you don't eat it, they all look at you as if you were an ungrateful sluggish crab. That dish that you observe after a sigh and an "unfastening" belt and pants and that phrase: "Do not eat? Do you not like it?
Well, there goes the shots. Every time we try to get our children to eat a little more because "come, it's very good", because "come, you have to grow", ... every time we do this we become that lady, food after food, day after day .
Forcing a child to eat means that he does things against his will and forcing someone to do something is the best way to despise doing it (I still remember how much I liked to read until at school they started to force me to read, as I told you yesterday).
There are times when a rule implies an obligation that must be fulfilled, but eating the amount that a mother (or father) seems to have to eat is not a norm.
Eating is an act of nutritional need, but it is above all a period of learning and love. Culturally, eating is associated with celebrations, moments of reunion, reunion, of sharing a moment (we meet for dinner, we meet for lunch, ...). The food is a cast of flavors, textures and colors that are one of the great pleasures of life.
The best way to have a good concept of food is to have a moment of love and contact between mother (father) and son, to talk and for the child to enjoy what he eats (although it puts everything lost).
