Under the pressure of criticism
How many times they told the world ... about the harm of sweet. Everyone knows: and the excess weight from it, and caries, and allergies, and completely repulsed appetite for a more healthy and healthy food. What could be easier: do not teach the child to sweets and cakes. This, of course, is the right decision. But it works only until the first outings "to the light" - on a visit, in a kindergarten or just on a playground. And then it starts ... "Girl, you have a sweetie! Can not? How can I not? Mom does not allow ?! Mom , you that, do not give your daughter candy at all? Poor child ... "In this situation, you and your baby get to several times a day? Then get ready to defend your position before others. Why do people consider themselves entitled to comment - and in a negative way - your principles of nutrition?
1. By the simplicity of the soul. Well, what can you do if a happy childhood in their understanding is firmly associated with the kulk, from which the child now and then drags candy?
2. Out of envy. In the depths of the soul, other mothers regret that their children will not become sweets without demand, there is a bedding and going to the kindergarten. And yours does not beg for sweets. Why? They console themselves with the fact that he is just afraid of you, and you are a mother with weird things. Do not be nervous about what others say. Stand on two whales:
• firm "no" in response to attempts to stretch the cud or chocolate to the baby;
• a one-time, not escalating into a discussion, an explanation of his refusal.
Adhere to this method, and sooner or later the surrounding people will accept your principles as a given and stop discussing them.
the Forbidden fruit
Having dealt with grandmothers and neighbors, my mother will have to do the most important thing: convince her of the need for proper nutrition of her child. All parents who feed their child "in a special way" will have to face several stages.
- Stage number 1
Cloudless
You just eat right. The kid eats only what you have prepared for him, and does not suspect the existence of other food.
- Stage number 2
Unpredictable
Sooner or later a baby goes out to the "big world" - to the playground, to the kindergarten, to visit and ... starts ... You can not keep up with everything, and now your child is licking out a piece of candy offered by someone or blowing bubbles in a glass with a sweet It's good if he does not like such food and drinks, but, most likely, he will gradually come to taste and subsume on these products.
- Stage number 3
Conscious
Even the smallest child can be made an ally in caring for his own health. Explain to the baby why he should not eat certain foods. If you follow a religious tradition, be sure to explain the meaning to it. If you just think it's right to exclude certain foods from the diet, you also need to justify it. Tell us how important it is to keep your teeth. When this happens from year to year and not only in kindergarten, but also in school, you can consider it your own small victory.
We are more delicious!
How to make sure that your kid does not envy the "omnivorous" children and does not feel away from the holiday of life? It depends only on you!
• In a store where other children are not taken away from shelves with chocolate bars, solemnly buy your baby a bottle of juice, a banana, a green apple, a bag of dried apricots or raisins.
• For birthday, bake an apple or curd cake instead of a cake. Soda substitute with compote, mors, freshly squeezed juice, sausage - homemade cold boiled pork. Instead of sweets, offer your birthday boy and his friends fruit "shish kebabs" on toothpicks.
• Treat a small fast man with delicious dishes from the allowed components, and outside the posts give him what he was limited in. And what if the restrictions imposed on the child do not apply to the whole family? Sometimes, the crumbs are allergic. Usually in such cases, the mother cuts the salad and does not add any components (for example, tomatoes) to it, until it puts the baby's portion away. Or it runs the soup separately in a small saucepan for the baby and at large for everyone else. But if the child is acutely aware of this prohibition, it is better to eat at the table what is available to everyone, and the rest - in the absence of the baby. Start with yourself! A personal example is more effective than any conversations and prohibitions.
Vegetable tango
The search for enemies is canceled! It will be much better if instead of scourging "bad" foods you begin to reason with the child about the benefits of "good". If you have an actor's talent, you can paint a baby in colors how happy gums make repairs in his body: calcium strengthens the teeth and bones, and the iron rushes through the veins and arteries, as through the pipes of the water park, improving the blood ... Play in "Guessing "- where any useful elements are contained.If the child does not want to drink kefir or eat sea kale, do not insist.
Choose an alternative
Keep the diet fun! Write poetry about the benefits of oatmeal, lay out funny faces from boiled vegetables - and food will be a real pleasure for the baby.
How correctly to formulate?
Practice in wording. You can laugh at any number of Western political correctness and attempts to rewrite the dictionary. Thick people are now called people with a non-standard figure, close cars - compact, and stale goods - special offer. Let's try and we speak more convenient, positive and not very offensive words.