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Do you want to know how to help your child overcome that fear? Here are some tips Consejos 10 tips to help children overcome their fear of trying new foods When there is a child with food neophobia at home, the most frequent times are that meal times become stressful for all members, not only for th
Do you want to know how to help your child overcome that fear? Here are some tips Consejos 10 tips to help children overcome their fear of trying new foods
When there is a child with food neophobia at home, the most frequent times are that meal times become stressful for all members, not only for the child but also for parents and siblings. The best in these cases is:
1.
Avoid getting nervous
, screaming, threatening, blackmailing or punishing. 2.Be patient
and respectful of the child's learning process. 3. Incorporate small amounts of vegetables and fruits los into daily menus.
4. Give exampleas parents committing everything and varied.
5. Incorporate new foods one by one, little by little, without pressing. Cambiar 6. Changing the dish you do not like for another dish that you know you will eat is not the solution. 7. Praise the small advances
.
8.
Involve the child in the process of buying and making the food that he will eat.9. Play with fruits and vegetables. We can encourage the child to play different games with plastic and real fruits and vegetables. A very interesting and recommended game is the blind tasting. It is about bandaging the eyes of the child and offering small portions of fruit for him to taste.
10. Continue offering that food rejected on various occasions. With time and a lot of patience the child
with food neophobia
will end up eating everything if we give him the opportunity to learn to eat healthy and varied. Consequences of food neophobia in children
It is evident that any food restriction has negative dietary consequences, since our body needs an adequate and varied diet to function properly. Children with food neophobia eat much less vegetables, fruits and fish than other children without this problem and many more fats than the latter. Despite presenting a risk to nutritional health, children with food neophobia do not have to have a low weight
, since many of them ingest enough calories from other foods (pasta, chocolates, sweets, pastries, sausages , hamburgers, etc.)
Regarding the emotional consequences are given at two levels, those that affect the child and those that involve the whole family. The neophobic child may present
severe signs of distress and anxietyin the presence of a certain food on his plate and insistence that he taste it. This refusal to eat repeatedly and persistently over time triggers tiredness and stress in the family.
