how to make my toddler eat

Offer your child food that is tasty and looks good, and offer the right amount. A good rule of thumb is to offer 1 tablespoon of each kind of food for each year of your child's age. If your child is still hungry, you can serve more. Don't force your child to clean his or her plate. Once he or she is no longer hungry, your child should be allowed to stop eating. Try not to bribe your child to eat (such as offering dessert as a reward). Threats or punishments aren't good ideas, either. If your child doesn't want to eat, accept his or her refusal. A good menu idea my hubby actual found, make mac n cheese. Mash up some cauliflower into the mac. The cheese hides the veggie. My daughter loves it.

Make sure that your child is free from Constipation and worm infestation. This is the primary cause for all children those refuses to eat the food. Psychiatrist suggests that preparing the food which resembles animals or toys, is easy and best way to feed the child. or atleast serve the food in a cartoon designed plate. Prepare the foods very attractively that the child should eat it on its first look. Try to explain the benefits of food in a comic way while feeding. Be patient while feeding. Feed your child with care and love. Sure you will get result.

My 5 year old cousin hates vegetables too. She loves eating meat. What my grandma does it, she will chop the vegetables finely and cook it with minced meat. It's easier to hoax my cousin into eating vegetables this way. Her mommy also buy her supplements (in candies form) and this helps to make up for the lack of vitamins and fibre due to the low vegetable intake. Thank goodness my cousin loves fruits.

Both my grand daughters are like this, but I find if you make it fun and make it so they WANT to eat, it makes a huge differnece. Now, when these 2 girls come to my house, they literalaly eat me out of house and home! one is 2 and the other is 8. I make sandwiches and use a gingerbread boy cookie cutter to cut the bread and meat and they they have fun eating the bread man sandwich! Or use any cookie cutter. Put hte food in a fun container -lunch box, paper bag that if they finish eating they can color on the bag. LIttle containers with things they can eat with their fingers. My daughter got mad at me cause she didn't want to "encourage" eating with fingers, but with a utensil. I told her...age 3 - she isn't eating. I am more concerned with getting her to eat so she stays healthy. Manners can be on the back burner for the moment. What's thepoint of having good manners if she doesn't eat to need them? She got the point nad now at age 8, the child eats and uses a fork properly! Chicken nuggets are a favoriet but they are so junky at fast food, so I started making them myself with real chicken and a quick deep fry. My GD would only eat chicken nuggest so I told her I got them at her favorite place and she downed them instantly! Later, she loves dolphins, and after going to Sea WOrld and feeding the dolphins squid, I made the chicken and told her it was squid and she played "dolphin" - the dolphin would "swim around" and jump to grab a "squid". THe kid went through about 10 homemade chicken nuggets! Again, my daughter balked and I said, i don't care how it gets into her mouth as long as it does. IF she does=n't eat she gets sick. this phase will wear off. Sure enough, not long after SHE wanted to make the squid! Yes, she acutally touched the raw chicken meat and did the dredging in the flour and bread crumbs and anxiously waited while I did the deep fry. Make it fun, make it to their standards in a sneaky way retaining the nutrition and don't give them snacks if they don't eat. Give them raisins and fruits as snack, but nothing else unless they eat. My 2 yo GD loves cottage cheese with fruit on top. My DIL complained about it (she eats nothing healthy!) and I said, if she is hooked on that, be thankful! It is healthy, low cal and nutirtious! And then use it as a reward too! Eat your dinner and you get EXTRA cottage cheese and fruit! Don't let manners and the like determine whether your child eats or not. Granted, keep it civil but at the same time, they are kids, not adults. They will out grow things and grow into things. Parents are so busy raising kids beyond their atucal years these days that they don't allow the child to be a kid and wonder why there is a struggle.

I wouldn't make to much of a fuss about her not wanting vegetables. Not many children do eat vegetables. If you trying to force her to eat the vegetables you maybe making her anxious about eating altogether. As for eating before noon, she may not be hungry. What time does she eat at night?? Does she have anything to eat before she goes to bed?? I agree with the first post, blend the vegetables up and hide it in the potatoes or sauce. Maybe give her small portions of vegetables on her plates but dont fuss about her eating them if she doesnt want to. Good luck and I hope you succeed in getting her to eat more.

i had this problem with my daughter. the only thing she would eat was cornflakes and jaffa cakes. i was told by my daughters dietician not to worry as long as she was taking fluids and was eating something. she was right, it was just a phase she was going through. she knew it upset me to see her not eat a balanced diet and the more i pushed her the more she refused the food i was offering. once i ignored her and let her eat just her cornflakes and jaffas it only took a week before she asked for some proper food.

Hide your veggies. Well I know someone who puts the vegetables in the blender and then pours it into the sauce in way that it's not visible. Or she mixes it with ground meat. That way her toddler would eat the meat not knowing that she ate the veggies too. Be creative. That was just an idea. There may be other ideas in your head too.