Feeding Your Child
Feeding Your Child
Like all besotted young mums I always wanted the very best for our daughters. I really wanted our girls to enjoy all the wonderful tastes that fresh food came in. Why would I give them their first experience of food made all the time in jars or prepared bought foods when I was always cooking mainly from scratch, food for my husband and me? My mother had said that when my younger brother was being weaned she took the easy route at times and used jarred food and hence this is what he preferred. So as not to make the same mistake I did my best as every mother tries to do in many different ways…and mine was to always make my girls their own food.
I would read what-ever books I could about the best ways to wean your child and for our first daughter I followed the rules from A to Z. One thing I learned at the start (and having followed thereafter) is the longer you spend cooking the more fractious you feel when your child refuses food. The food that you give your child in the first year probably has the greatest influence than any other time of life. It reinforces the need to start early with a good balanced diet. Your rewards will show when your child opts for the healthy snacks of raw fruit and vegetables over that of sugary sweets.
However all this being said I often wonder how our two daughters are so different with their eating habits? Like I said before our first daughter was by the book BUT I can still remember soon after we started to wean our youngest she soon wanted what we were all having and would refuse the food that I had prepared for her…so I decided that it would be easier to puree the dinner that we were eating.
Well the daughter who I followed the rules with will pick sweets over healthy options, is a
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fussy eater and most dinner times with her are spent in battle over finishing what is on her plate. But our youngest eats everything put in front of her and will choose the healthy option every time. Even while traveling we were in a coffee shop for a snack and she didn’t want what was offered – she wanted some fruit so we had to find a place that sold it…..not that it was an issue and really we should have all followed in her foot steps!!!!”
No matter how much you try to do and teach the correct thing to your children you can only do so much as it is important to realize that each child is an individual and you are only able to guide them to a certain point.
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Feeding Your Child / Author: Sean Stewart