Do not feed other people’s children at will

Parents often complain to me that their children are fed snacks that cause recurrent coughs and other discomforts. Parents generally feel helpless because they are too embarrassed to refuse someone’s kindness, even if they are reluctant to do so. This kind of adult feeding behavior occurs more often in kindergartens, such as parents bring their own snacks to pick up their children from school, and if they meet familiar parents, they take the opportunity to teach their children to learn to share food with others, so the other child becomes the object of sharing. In fact, the parent may not be happy to do so, but because eating alone may be perceived as selfish and unfriendly, the TA has to do so to save face. The parent of the child who receives the food may not necessarily like this sharing, but also because of the face, TA can not refuse, so the child becomes the object of being fed by others. There is also a situation where several children are playing together and one of them asks for a snack, and the parents often buy multiple copies for all the children to share. The roadside snacks bought on the way to play are mostly junk food, and other parents have no choice but to accept in order not to spoil the fun. During the New Year inevitably to visit friends and relatives, many adults see children used to make fun of some to express their love for children, snacks often become their delightful tools. Such as pistachios, melon seeds, peanuts, such as the New Year’s Eve snacks are also children like to eat snack varieties, and these snacks with packaging generally belong to both the benefits and harms or more harm, less benefit snack types, children eat a lot of bad. The children are fed at will, may have 3 major risks: 1, tracheal foreign body. Young children swallowing reflex development is not perfect, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, walnuts and other snacks should not be fed to children within 3 years old, even older children should also eat in a quiet state, otherwise such granular food has the risk of entering the trachea as a foreign body. 2. Allergies. Allergy is an intense immune response to certain substances. In food, peanuts, walnuts, pistachios and other nuts, aquatic products, etc. are common allergens. Often parents are familiar with which foods their children are allergic to, and thus avoid them in their daily diet. But relatives and friends do not necessarily understand this information, so the random feeding, once the intake of allergenic food, light cough, rash, gastrointestinal discomfort and other allergic reactions, serious may be life-threatening. 3, interference with the normal feeding pattern. Children may be randomly fed after the meal may cause a reduction in the amount of food, eating lost the original rule, the Spring Festival holiday for a long time to be randomly fed, may also lead to anorexia, indigestion occurs. So, how to not be considered petty when snacks are found by others, but also to avoid the above risks? The best thing to do is to consult with the other parent and let the parents feed the child themselves if they really need to. If a child is celebrating a birthday in kindergarten, it is best not to give out food, but to use other small toys instead. Parents of children who are fed by others should be bold enough to make their attitude clear, or they can politely borrow a doctor’s advice to refuse unhealthy snacks.