When we preach to parents in the clinic, we often ask for more vegetables for small children. Parents always have trouble in one way or another in implementing this. So let’s take a look at what we can do if a small child does not like to eat vegetables. Case one Six months ago, and a friend party, a friend told me, “daughter now eating has been very good, but just a problem, is not to eat vegetables, not at all vegetables”. I told him that the child could eat vegetables without any problem, and that from now on, you should not say things like “the child does not eat vegetables”, I would let her eat vegetables. This little girl, who was about 5 or 6 years old, sat across from me, sitting with her mother. I said to the little girl, “Hey, little beauty, do you want to grow taller, as tall as Dad. She nodded her head. I said, “We are good friends, let me help you grow up, how about it? She nodded again. I also said, you want to grow up, you must eat vegetables. If you don’t believe me, ask this sister if she loves to eat vegetables, so she can grow so tall and big. The little girl looked at the tall, big sister next to me and nodded. Not long after, the first plate of vegetables came up, I immediately turned the dish to the little girl, come, little girl try this dish. She hesitated a little, and I said, “Come on, just take a taste, it’s delicious. She took a bite and her expression was good. In the future, every dish, I do the same thing again, after eating a few dishes, she will be able to comply with my wishes. After all the vegetables were eaten, I asked her, little girl, are the vegetables good, she nodded her head, I said, come, eat some more, she did not refuse in the slightest. I said to my friend, watching no, I said it’s okay for children to eat vegetables. He said, my child really did not eat vegetables before, I did not wait for him to finish, I interrupted his words, you should never say such things again, you hint her like this again, it is too dangerous, this child could have eaten vegetables, she did not eat vegetables should have a relationship with your misinformation. Through the above example, it should be clear that this child’s appetite is normal, but she just won’t eat vegetables. In fact, this child does not know what those dishes taste like, but just does not have the courage to try them. Because every time she eats a dish, I am observing, which dish does not taste to the extent that she can not accept. In this case, just encourage the child, parents should not go to mislead. Case 2 When my child was still in kindergarten, one day, the children downstairs, 6-year-old Junjun came to my house to play, play for a while, it was dinner time, I invited Junjun to eat at my house, the little boy said he wanted to go home to eat, because his mother would not let him eat in other people’s homes. I said, “It’s okay, it’s okay to eat at Auntie Cong’s house, I’ll talk to your mom. Of course the boy was willing to eat at my house, because he hadn’t played enough. After sitting down, the little boy immediately said to me, “Auntie Cong, I don’t eat fungus. I said, well, there are other dishes, you can eat whatever you like. I watched for a while, the little boy’s appetite was very good, “Come on, Junjun, try a bite of fungus, Auntie Cong’s is especially delicious, you try it”. The little boy hesitated for a moment, not too good to push back, had to reluctantly eat a bite, I saw that he had no discomfort expression, then clip a piece, “Come, eat another bite.” He did not make any resistance this time. “One more bite”, he ate again. Then I said, “How is it? Is the fungus good?” The boy said happily, “Yes, it’s delicious.” I said, “Of course, fungus is the best dish, eat more, Auntie Cong fried it for you”. The little boy was so encouraged that he ate nearly half of the plate of fungus in one gulp, but did not eat much of the other dishes. After a while, the little boy’s mother came up to find the child home to eat, the child’s mother is not the usual careful, the child’s care can be described as the best. I told her the child had eaten, she asked me, in your home to eat? What did you eat? I said the food was fungus, the mother immediately said, our Junjun do not eat fungus, I said, look, our family half plate of fungus is who ate, the mother still do not believe, asked the son, fungus is you eat, the boy said, well, quite tasty, the mother led the child downstairs is still asking the child, you do not eat fungus? This child clearly said not to eat fungus, and finally under my foolishness, ate a bite and a bite. As you can see, most foods are perfectly acceptable for small children if their appetite is not in question. We do not deny that some children do have some things they cannot eat, such as some children do not eat beef and mutton, some children do not eat parsley, some children do not eat leeks, all kinds of things, but it is impossible for a child to eat a large category of vegetables. Especially that this herbal medicine can eat the children, how can not eat vegetables. If there is no love of vegetables, most of them are caused by the unreasonable addition of complementary foods in infancy, these situations can be changed later in life, there is no problem. As long as parents have the confidence to change, they can definitely change. First coaxing, by encouraging, or telling stories to induce, are likely to achieve the goal. If this hand does not work well, you can also use not to eat food on the way to intimidate the injection and so on, can also completely achieve the purpose. Of course, the premise of these practices is that the child has a good appetite. As we said earlier, parents are not allowed to lure and coerce their children to eat, so why can you use these tactics when eating vegetables? First, it should be clear that eating vegetables presupposes that the child’s appetite is normal and digestion is good, in which case eating vegetables is intended to restructure the diet. Generally speaking, vegetables are low in energy and a few bites of vegetables in moderation will not cause food accumulation, so such strategic means will not cause trouble. But one thing should be clear, even if the child refuses to eat vegetables, we do not recommend feeding them to the child, we still need to encourage the child to eat vegetables on their own, which, in line with the overall feeding requirements.