Although compared with 10 years ago, China’s children’s nutritional status has improved greatly, but experts caution that at present, China’s children’s intake of high quality protein, high quality fat, minerals can not meet the high proportion of the current situation is caused by feeding children’s nutritional concept of more misconceptions. With the improvement of people’s living standards, parents are paying more and more attention to their children’s diet, “give children a good meal” is almost all parents’ consensus, but eating well does not necessarily indicate eating right. Nowadays, parents still have more misunderstandings in feeding their children, which makes children form poor eating habits such as partial eating, picky eating, snacking, not eating breakfast, insufficient calorie and protein intake at breakfast or unreasonable nutritional mix. As a result, children are prone to nutritional problems during childhood, including growth retardation, short stature, various nutritional deficiencies, overnutrition and obesity. Nutrition has a great impact on children’s growth and development and even their bodies as adults. Young parents must avoid the following common parenting misconceptions: Misconception 1: Soy products are equal to vegetables Some parents see their children unwilling to eat vegetables and believe that soy products have high nutritional value, so they give their children tofu, soy milk and other soy products, so that children do not have to eat vegetables. In fact, soy products are a nutritious plant-based protein that can be seen as a meat dish, but if children just eat tofu and treat it as a green vegetable, they will lack vitamins and fiber. Many children do not like to eat vegetables, because some long strips of vegetables are difficult to swallow and easy to stuff in the teeth, feel uncomfortable, so simply do not eat vegetables. Parents can break up the vegetables, or make vegetable filled dumplings, children are still willing to accept. Myth 2: Milk + eggs for breakfast every day Many parents believe that milk and eggs have high nutritional value, so every day to the child’s breakfast is milk + eggs, but do not see the child grow sturdy. Breakfast is an important part of children’s intake of the required energy and nutrition, and plays an irreplaceable role in the three meals of the day. A breakfast of good nutritional quality should include four major components: cereals, animal foods, milk and vegetables and fruits. If breakfast does not have cereals like buns, noodles, rice, bread, etc., there is a lack of calorie supply, and eggs and milk are high protein substances that are not only poorly absorbed by children, but also high-quality protein is used to supply calories, which is “too big to be used”. Children do not have enough calories, in the long run, it is easy to affect the child’s height development. Myth #3: Snacking takes over Snacking is a prominent manifestation of poor eating behavior in children, and the vast majority of children have this nature. Fruit, cookies, candy, snacks, puffed food are their regular snacks, but if you hold on to snacks, it will affect the appetite of the main meal and easily cause indigestion. Therefore, parents should not take their children’s preference for snacks, to take an accommodating, permissive attitude, resulting in irregular meals, greedy snacks, aversion to food, the phenomenon of snacks take over the main. Of course, snacks are not completely inaccessible, for children with growth retardation, snacks between meals, to supplement the body nutrients, especially school children can eat some snacks between meals, but the number should not be excessive, to choose high nutrition, sugar appropriate food is appropriate. Myth 4: Drinks try to meet the child carbonated drinks, fruit juice, jelly, etc. has now become the mainstream of urban children’s consumption, some children can not drink a day without drinks, on the one hand, like that sweet and sour taste, on the other hand, some advertising promotions, accompanied by a small card, toys, etc. Superman can be quite attractive to children’s attention. Coupled with many parents’ misconceptions, many children from the age of one or two years old have developed the habit of preferring drinks. Drink too many drinks before meals, simply will not eat well the main meal, affecting the growth and development of children. In recent years, the detection rate of obese children in China has risen sharply, with an annual growth rate of 10% for boys and 8.7% for girls. Studies have confirmed that obesity in these children is related to the uncontrolled consumption of beverages. Myth 5: young children do not like to eat meat Many parents in the feeding of children, will encounter a problem, is that children do not like to eat meat, fed to the mouth to spit out. In fact, many parents do not pay attention to why their children do not want to eat meat. For young children, chicken, beef, pork is not only difficult to chew, but also stuffed teeth, of course, children do not like to eat. If parents pay attention to the use of tender meat, such as fish, shrimp, eel, etc., the child is still happy to accept. Children do not eat meat, many parents make soup for children to drink, thinking that the soup with chicken, add herbs such as Huai Shan, cinnamon, gravy, etc., but also boiled 2-3 hours, the soup is very nutritious. In fact, 90% of the nutrition is still in the meat dregs. To children to get nutrition, but also to eat the meat. Myth 6: foreign fast food as a reward often eat foreign fast food is not conducive to children’s physical development and growth, but every store, always adults and children seated, unusually lively. Many parents always think that fast food is good nutrition, and as a reward for good performance of children. This reward, so that children’s appetite for higher and higher, the more mouth to eat the more tricky. Fast food is a high-energy, high-fat food, often eaten easily cause children obesity, poor gastrointestinal function or obese children, more should not eat fast food.