When it comes to anorexia in children, I think there are few parents who do not feel it deeply. In order to get their children to eat a bite of food, parents can be described as a great deal of effort, all the tricks, but when little success, and often take excessive behavior, either reprimanded, or scolded. When these means still do not work, parents are often convinced that their children are sick, so they look for medicine everywhere, and suffer a lot. In fact, anorexia in children is rarely caused by physical illness. This is because when such children are examined in the hospital, they are often found to have certain nutritional problems, such as iron, zinc and vitamin deficiencies. Therefore, more parents are convinced that their children are sick. However, when these so-called deficiencies are supplemented and the results are not very satisfactory, does it occur to anyone that these problems are often the result of long-term anorexia, rather than the cause of the anorexia? Most parents are not aware of their children’s diet. They often think that their children should not grow thin and that they should eat as much as they can every day to be healthy. They often make some vague comparisons between their children and others or with the past. For example, why their children grow thinner than others is because he eats too little; their own children were born with a very large amount of food, 10 times a day to eat milk is not enough, but now how a small bowl of rice can not eat ……, and so on. These errors in understanding often lead to parents being overly anxious about their children’s growth. And this excessive anxiety is a frequently harmful but not beneficial emotion in parenting. Why do you say this? Because parents who are dominated by this emotion simply believe that their child is fine as long as they can keep their food down. With such emotions, parents often encourage their children to do games or watch TV with him when eating, this, the child as a game and excessive procrastination; when the child excessive procrastination and often cause parents to lose patience and forced to eat, this, the child often form resistance, and vomit out the food. Once vomiting occurs, parents have no choice but to give up feeding, thus reinforcing the child’s refusal. In addition, when parents lose patience, and often take such as scolding, reprimand and other aggressive behavior, resulting in the child’s bad mood. The child takes eating as a mental burden. Once these situations occur, how can the child take the meal as a kind of enjoyment? In fact, the child’s height, fat and thin is related to genetics, and not by eating can be solved, thin children or less active children due to storage or consumption of less, the amount of food to eat certainly to reduce. In addition, the child’s growth rate is along an uneven curve, the first 6 months of life, the child’s growth rate is fast and fat, eating more, 6 months later growth began to slow down, so the amount of food began to reduce, when the child does not need as much nutrition as in the past, many parents do not understand this process, too subjective that the child should be as fat as the past will eat, that fat is. This inevitably leads to forced eating. Truthfully, a child’s dislike of eating is not so severe as to be considered malnourished by parents. Recognizing this, there is no need to be overly anxious. What remains is how to take action to make the necessary corrections. Since anorexia in children is more a behavioral problem than a biological one. Therefore, it is necessary to take the following approaches to correct the problem. The most common is vitamin and mineral deficiencies, which can be supplemented with multivitamins and minerals. 2, try to diversify the side dishes to meet the child’s taste and sensory stimulation. For example, you can make the meal in the shape of small animals, then the child will be happy to eat. Conditionally let the child want to eat things in the meal, such as want to eat fried chicken, but do not eat vegetables, then you can promise to eat how many vegetables first after you can eat fried chicken, do not think that this “hot”, that “cool”, thus limiting the child’s appetite. Just think, as adults we always do not want someone to limit how we eat, let alone children? In fact, as food is generally more peaceful. 3, let the child participate in the process of making meals, making meals can be consulted before purchasing, the production requires the child to participate, generally speaking, children are extremely interested in their own participation in the activity. This caters exactly to the child’s desire for control. Psychologically speaking, people like things they can control. This is also true for children. 4, try to liven up the table: Parents often complain that their children do not eat well at home but eat very well at other people’s homes or in kindergartens. This is because children often have a good atmosphere to imitate when they eat in these places, and are often encouraged by others. At home, they are often reprimanded, criticized or otherwise compromised. Therefore, it is wise to be a parent to maintain a good mood at mealtime. 5, if the child does not eat softly, and there is no chronic disease, may be “suspended eating”. Before eating, you can make a calm agreement with the child, if you do not want to eat or eat very slowly, that you do not want to eat, you can take the meal away, and tell the meal can not make up, to eat can only wait for the next meal. In the meantime, there is no snack to eat, so that he can experience the taste of hunger. This method is a last resort, do not scold or reprimand, otherwise the child will feel that you are deliberately punishing him, and cause confrontation, then the situation will be worse. At the same time, parents should not compromise, as this will reinforce the child’s bad behavior. Remember, first of all, there is no need to worry, two or three meals without eating will not starve the child.