Why stop force-feeding your baby

  2 year old male baby, eat with adults, eat a few bites on their own before eating, usually eat half in, half fell to the floor, the family said come on grandma to feed you, a few days later a meal directly to the bowl pushed to the grandmother, said the grandmother to feed. It is still recommended to insist that babies eat by themselves.  Normal people can produce hunger, hungry for food is a human instinct, as long as you provide sufficient rich food, he has hands, he has the ability to eat on his own, he is not bad hunger. If he eats a little less at this meal, he will feel hungry earlier, and he may eat more at the next meal. In today’s abundant supply of material, a healthy child with hands and mouth, you don’t have to worry about him starving.  Children who are just learning to eat on their own may get food all over the place and even drop their bowls and spoons on the floor. Growing children are also curious, so they are also active when eating, and their eating habits often change, and they are unlikely to consciously choose a more balanced diet like adults do. But with the development of the child’s fine motor, self-management ability, these will slowly improve, adults need to do is to provide healthy, reasonable food to him, their own good example of eating, from the child can grasp finger food, can grab a spoon to start consciously train him to eat on his own, give him a little time, and appropriate guidance, he can eat properly on his own.  Parents who are compulsive feeders are always worried that their children will lose at the starting line and start to eat on their behalf when they see that their children are not eating the way they think they should, not respecting their children’s own developmental rules.  Children who are force-fed either resist eating and fall behind in growth, or rely on feeding and are overfed, leading to obesity and other problems. Parents who feed their children for fear that they will lose at the starting line are not only working themselves hard, but also harming their children.