If you are feeding your child and they are pulling faces and shaking their head with their lips clamped shut, you are probably trying to get them to eat their vegetables.
It is possible to get your kids to eat vegetables, honest! You will need patience and a certain amount of creativity, but you can get there if you persevere.
One of the best ways to get your children to eat vegetables and actually like them is to introduce them to them at the earliest possible age. If you give a year old baby a tomato for example, their taste buds will accept the flavor of the tomato and they will look forward to their next one.
You have basically educated their taste buds to accept these flavors and when they grow older, they will continue to eat these foods as their taste buds are already used to them.
Never ever sit your child down to vegetables and demand that they eat them. They need to be friends with vegetables, not enemies.
By going on like this with your child you will never get them to eat their vegetables willingly. A bit of psychology is needed here. Eat the same vegetables at them and make a big deal about how yummy they are.
If the food looks appealing to kids you are halfway there. By getting a plate and using lots of different veggies so that is looks like a favorite from a TV show will make them look upon eating vegetables as fun .Join in with them and have a bite of their hair or ear.
These are the only ways to make a child eat their vegetables without any fuss or tantrums. You can’t order a child to eat something that they don’t want; think how you would feel! Time, patience and praise will start your kid on a life long love affair with vegetables.
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