Let's reveal the secrets of a child's good appetite together.
The first thing you need to understand is the mode of eating crumbs. There are no trifles, you must have everything under your attention: the quality of food, the amount of food, the time of feeding.
No matter how fashionable now was not free feeding, it is good only in early infancy, when the baby is really better than his mother knows when he needs to sleep, and when - to eat. From an early age, try to establish a diet, because everyone knows that eating at the same time produces an alimentary reflex: gastric juice and saliva start to emerge, and a feeling of hunger appears. If our body works like a clock, it's better to adjust to it, so there will be no problems with eating and the baby will always have an excellent appetite, which means that everything you cook for him will be woven for both cheeks for joy to you.
Portions of food should also be normalized. You know roughly how much you eat your baby, so do not put him to eat more than he can eat. This can provoke a refusal of food in the future. Put him more food if he asks you about it himself. If you put the usual portion of the baby to the child, but he refuses to eat it, do not insist on it and do not force him to eat through force, so that the kid does not refuse to eat at all. The child has his own taste preferences, which is why one dish can be eaten with additives, and the other can be abandoned altogether. An experienced mother knows how to prepare a product that a child does not like so delicious that he will ask for supplements. To do this, you need to get better acquainted with the secrets of "my mother's" cuisine. For example, if the baby does not like to eat cottage cheese, cook him a cottage cheese casserole with raisins. Very tasty and not less useful!
Make the rule before eating to do the same "rituals": washed the handles, put on an apron, wished everyone "a pleasant appetite." Such identical rituals additionally set the child to a good appetite and food intake.
When the baby eats, nothing should distract him from eating. It will be better if the child always eats in the same place, let him have his own personal place at the table. Do not turn on the TV and even the radio. Do not distract him by talking and do not talk to anyone yourself until the baby is not eating. Let from an early age he understands that "when I eat, I am deaf and dumb!".
Refuse once and for all from snacks between meals. Snacks, especially in dry conditions, badly affect the digestion of the baby. Many parents between meals give the child to eat a huge amount of sweets, sweets and cookies, and then complain that the baby is badly eating "ordinary" food. Limit your child's sweet consumption. Candies and cookies should always lie in a place where the child can not get them on their own. If the kid complains that he is hungry, and before dinner is still far away, you can make him a fruit salad, or just give an apple or a banana.
That the kid did not take a great interest in childhood with such harmful products as chips, croutons and soda, do not give it a bad example and do not use them yourself.