Getting babies and toddlers to eat and dress themselves is not an easy process, especially eating. Baby eating, has always been the heart of the parents, feeding the baby is like fighting a war, the baby finished eating, the war only pause. Here are some tips on how to empower your baby to do their own thing, both by empowering them and teaching them to eat on their own, two birds with one stone! In this way, when your baby can be enrolled in school, you do not have to worry about the baby do not eat enough, not eat well. A, how to cultivate the baby’s ability to eat by himself 1, give him a spoon as long as the baby is willing to take the spoon from your hands, you can give him a small spoon. At first, he may just play with it as a toy, biting it, waving it around or using it as a drumstick. However, no matter how he uses the spoon, don’t try to forbid him on the grounds of bad table manners. By the time your baby is about eight months old, he will have learned to put the spoon in the bowl and try to put food into the spoon with it. At this point, you can put a small amount of food into the spoon and then let him try to feed himself. When he is busy feeding himself, you can put the food into another spoon to train your baby to eat on his own in an alternating manner. 2. Encourage your baby to eat with his hands If you don’t forbid your baby to put his hands into the food you have prepared and then put his hands full of food into his mouth, he will soon associate food with his mouth and you can slowly let him start to eat on his own. It doesn’t matter how the food gets into your baby’s mouth or how much of it actually goes in, as long as your baby is happy to eat, enjoys eating, and enjoys eating! 3. Let your baby eat whatever he wants When your baby starts to feed himself, his food combinations may be quite strange. For example, your baby may put green vegetables into chocolate pudding before putting them in his mouth. Or he may throw rice into juice and then try to scoop it up with his hands. Perhaps you can’t agree with such strange food combinations and eating styles, and your first instinct may be to put a stop to it. Please be patient for a while, this is just an exploratory process. It’s just a process of discovery, because your baby has to figure out the best combination of foods on his own. Regardless of how he eats, he will still end up eating in the same combinations that you eat. 4, do not force the baby to eat When the baby is full, he will push the food away, at this time, you can put the dishes and rice away, do not force him to eat or still let him sit on the dining chair and hope that he will finish the food in the bowl and plate. If you leave him in the dining chair after he has eaten his food, he will be all over the place, and his destructive power is quite amazing and scary, and your patience will not be able to withstand this kind of powerful destruction. Therefore, the wisest choice is to let him get off the table when he is “full”. If you are worried that your child is underfed or malnourished, you can rest assured. Your baby will never starve himself and will never be malnourished as long as you prepare a well-balanced diet for him. If this still doesn’t convince you, you can measure his height and weight on a regular basis. As long as your baby’s height and weight are within the standard range, he will not be malnourished. 5. Psychological preparation for mess 7-8 months old baby’s hand control has not yet reached maturity, so whenever he finishes eating, you will find that the baby’s body, the floor, the dinner plate, the dinner plate, the chair, the chair is full of food hanging under the chair. Your first thought may be “This is worse than a typhoon, why am I doing this? If you are prepared for the mess, your reaction may be: “Not bad! It’s not as bad as I thought.” You can minimize the cleanup by having a plastic bib with a pocket at the bottom that catches a lot of the food that falls out, so that your baby’s clothes stay clean. You may also notice that your baby often takes food from the pocket of the bib with his hand or a spoon, or scoops food into the pocket first and then eats it from the pocket. Please do not stop your baby even if you are not happy about it. It’s just a learning process. It will get better in time! You can spread a layer of newspaper around your baby’s chair before he eats, and you just need to collect the newspaper and throw it in the trash when he is done. This will save you a lot of time and energy. Slowly, you can train him to eat more elegantly. Whenever he delivers the food into the mouth accurately, don’t forget to praise him a bit, so that he will be interested in practicing eating cleanly and elegantly. Second, let the baby to eat by themselves notes 1, spoons and other cutlery when appropriate to give the baby to use their own? When to start to give the baby with a small spoon or fork and other utensils, if he uses his hands to grasp the meal, is not to force him to use the spoon? When your baby is over 1 year and 3 months old, and his finger tips are flexible and he knows that a spoon or fork is an eating utensil, you can give it to him. Some babies will want to try it earlier, so you can give it a try. If he throws the cutlery away, or if it doesn’t work well, wait a little longer. Let him try again after some time. In general, the baby can skillfully use a small spoon until after two years old. 2.Beware of baby weight loss Eating more or less naturally varies from child to child. Even if it looks like your baby is eating very little in his mouth, he still has breastmilk and formula to supplement, so as long as your baby’s weight is increasing normally, you don’t have to worry about him being malnourished. If your baby shows signs of weight loss, you should pay attention and ask your pediatrician for help if necessary. 3. What should I do if my baby always throws food on the floor while eating? It’s not uncommon for babies to throw food on the floor while eating, even when the utensils are placed in front of his eyes, they will be thrown on the floor and often take pleasure in doing so. Is this normal? When the baby wants to throw the cutlery to the ground, the mother can directly hold down the cutlery; if it is food you can give him reasoning: “This is food, can not be thrown away ah.” Babies sometimes throw food away because they don’t like it, so you can’t just let him eat it all by himself. Mom has to come and help from time to time. You can also put newspaper on the floor, which can save some time in cleaning up. 4. Can I let my baby eat while watching TV? Eating while watching TV can make the baby eat a little smoother, I wonder if there is any harm in doing so? Let the baby watch TV while eating, not only can not increase the joy of eating, but will make his meal into a mechanical mouth to stuff things. So the ideal atmosphere during meals is for mom and baby to face each other, or for the family to eat together. Mom note to eat while talking to the baby, such as: “good boy, this smells good ah”. 5. Does it matter if the baby rubs his eyes with his dirty little hands after making a mess of the food? Babies often put their hands into the bowl and make a mess of the food before rubbing their eyes and touching their heads. Is it okay to criticize him? This is not the time to scold him, but to teach him how to eat in a gentle tone of voice. Although babies do not yet understand adults’ words, when you say over and over again: “Baby, this will not taste good if it is broken” and so on, he will gradually and naturally master the rules of eating. This stage if the baby’s hands dirty, mom can prepare a wet towel to wipe him clean at any time. 6, the baby does not love to eat how to do? Enhance the baby’s appetite is the best practice of starvation therapy, all of the baby’s snacks are put away do not give him to eat. Fixed point regular meals, every day can only eat at the dinner table, in the prescribed time to eat, after this time or down the dinner table are no food. And parents must set a good example by eating at regular intervals as well. Parents and babies should eat together, do not parents to feed the baby, to let the little baby to grab their own hands to eat, sometimes, mom and dad can pretend to grab rice with him to eat, let him know that he is in front of the rice do not grab to eat there is no more. 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