You've tried to take your child to the kitchen to participate in cooking? If not, try to get them! by looking at the cooking process - especially if involved.
If they’re interested in helping to cook, let them. but make sure knives or other dangerous cooking tools are kept away from the child. If youre sure thei’re safe, your child can begin to explore like a junior chef in the kitchen. Give him a chance to wash the tomatoes and beans, churning out dough fritters, or move the vegetables that have been boiled down to her plate. Definitely exciting, right!
2. let your Kids to Choose their Own food
Sometimes the child refuses to eat vegetables because they do not like the choice of vegetables. if that is the case, the solution is quite simple,
Let your child have some control over themself. Exempt they chose their own vegetables. For example today you make steamed vegetables, you just give your child a bowl. Furthermore, it's up to your child to choose vegetables
Let them decide what vegetables they want. Let them make their own decision when choosing a vegetable. Given the confidence like this, your child definitely will not waste it. He would love and passion. believe me, it is powerful way to get child to eat vegetables!
3. serving vegetables with attractive as possible
This method is probably the most widely practiced by the mothers so that your child likes to eat vegetables. Yes, serving vegetables with attractive as possible. childrens, usually like funny and unique.
You can combine vegetables with other foods, such as rice, bread, meat, and so on. Serve in an attractive form. Create themes that captivate your child, like an animal, favorite movie character, or whatever. Then, ask your child eat together. Would have be nice!
4. Encourage Shopping Together
When you are shopping the ingredients to be cooked today, there's no harm to take the child. Take the little one chat while choosing the vegetables. For example, here, you're in a row of carrots, you can explain that these vegetables are containing vitamin A and good for eye health. Then say how carrots can be cooked and what this foodstuff. Can make soup, plain boiled, eaten raw or something else.
Then, when passing through a row of tomatoes, you can tell all the good thing contained in these vegetables. Got a story like that, usually the child interested to rush to enjoy it when they get home.
5. Give the Stars when they eat vegetables
Just like in school, the child can be so happy to get award when they’re eat vegetables. So when your child succeed in devouring vegetables that serve, or when he would try three kinds of vegetables every day, You can say a words of motivation, such as "good job!" or waving a thumbs up sign that you are proud of him. And could also give a star like when your kids managed to do something at school.
Maybe there is less agreement with the reward for children who want to eat vegetables, but some children like motivated in this way. The choice is yours.
6. Say That Superhero Love and have favorite Vegetables
Not intended to deceive the child, but with telling that his favorite superheroes like vegetables is effective enough to motivate the child. After all, children are easily influenced by the figures of his favorite movies. So, there's no harm, take this loophole to push the little guy likes to eat vegetables?
If possible, try to find the mighty character who really like to eat vegetables, like Popeye. Or otherwise --and if possible-you can try to find a scene in the movie that shows your child's favorite character was eating his favorite vegetables. It takes extra effort, really, but for the sake of the children, why not?
Mama should also tell your toddler that Batman and Superman could be a super figures since hooked vegetables so that his body strong and healthy and not easy to get sick. Hopefully this way can motivate your child.
You can also tell your child that Batman and Superman could be a super hero since hooked vegetables so that his body strong and healthy. Hopefully with this way can motivate your child.
7. Encourage Kids Eat Vegetables While Learning Shapes, Colors, and More
Still did not work well, six of the above? Let's try this way. you know, a little like everything paced fun? Well, what if the activity of the child to eat vegetables is made in a way that is fun as well so they does not feel compelled to do so?
For example. you take one vegetable shapes and colors thag captivate your child. Say pumpkin. Pumpkin shape large rounded like a ball. Not to mention the striking yellow color, a children should definitely interested!
Well, then, while preparing the food, ask him to play. Ask him what form this pumpkin? Ball, balloon, or what? Then, ask what is color? Then, sop ripe pumpkin that has been served at the plate while continuing to tinker with the pumpkin intact.
Or you can create a chart containing the colors what hae been eaten every day. Such success today tasting cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, and spinach, then you or your child's tick in green, red, yellow on the chart. Exciting isn’it?
8. Ask Kids pick Vegetable Recipes fondness on the Internet
Another way is to involve children in the selection menu. If you have an internet connection, ask your child pick out a vegetable-based recipes.
Or if there is no internet connection, you can reopen a cookbook and gave it to the little guy. Let them decide what menu they wanted. In this way, the child will feel appreciated because it was given the freedom to choose and have control over themselves. And in the end, your child will enjoy the results of their choice of vegetables. Its Fun, right?
9. Encourage their Friends Eating Together
Eating together is certainly more fun. especially for children, eat rollicking would make eating passion increases.
Therefore, try to occasionally invite classmates or friends around the neighborhood. Even better if the invited friend is buff vegetables.
You Know, how easy the children get affected when he saw his friends doing something? Well, by inviting friends who like to eat vegetables, maybe your child become like vegetables, too?
10. Plant Your Own Vegetables
Planting our own vegetables? Why not? Do not forget, take along the child to plant.
While showing how to plant vegetables in the backyard, give your child the opportunity to have their own plants. Put a pot or area that it was hers.
Later, when the vegetable was ready to be harvested, take back the child picking vegetables. Then wash and cook together, and of course eating together!
11. Tell them that vegetable is good for healhty
You may frequently remind your child to eat vegetables, but if you've often reminded her the importance of eating vegetables?
If not, do it again, this way. Tell your child that vegetables not just good and good to eat, but more than that, the vegetables good for health.
Explain the vitamin content of an assortment of vegetables the following benefits to our body.
12. Ask your child whether food Want to be Boiled, fried, Shredded, or something?
If your child does not like certain vegetables, try different ways to cook. For example, all this time you boiled the carrots and evidently your child do not like it.
could be the fact he likes carrots but he doesn’t like if it boiled. Try to offer other alternatives, such as carrot soup, carrot juice, maybe they gonna like it.
13. Creative in Presentation
As noted above, interesting presentation will make children more interested in eating vegetables.
It may be that your child has “full” when looking at the vegetables in large portions and with a perfunctory plate.
If you feel the vegetables served quite messy and overcrowded, let's try to change how to serving this. For example, whole boiled carrots replaced with small pieces lengthwise like a stick.
It could also put the vegetables in small plates with funny and detached (carrot sticks on the plate itself, the mashed potatoes in a separate small bowl, cut into small chickpeas in other mini plates, and so on).
By presenting creative and beautiful vegetables, children will be more excited to eat vegetables
14. Give the names of Vegetables with fondness Characters
Children very love to play. Well, it does not hurt to encourage your child to play with the names of vegetables.
encourage your child to change the name of vegetables with the name of his favorite cartoon character.
Eg for calling Popeye spinach, kale Hulk for (because Hulk is green like kale), or whatever else is on your and your child mind.
cute and unique name can make children more interested in eating it.
15. Succeeded yet? Keep try, But Do not Force it
All trick had be done but the child still difficult to eat vegetables? Do not give up,
Keep trying, but do not force. Do not make the moment of eating as combat arena. '
No need to panic, worried, especially angry! Enjoy it every process of training your child to eat vegetables as means to strengthen the bonding between you and your child.
Have a good “fight”! Good luck.
