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How does one handle meal times with a 2-year-old who looks at what adults are eating and wants it, for example Romaine lettuce with 4-inch chunks of raw carrots? Are adults supposed to say,"We are all sitting down together at family mealtime but you can't have what we are eating"? Or give them the huge carrot and let them choke?
NO NO NO NO NO. allow them to try very small portions. limit them completely. i suggest starting them on "grown up" food such as a diet. ive seen WAY too many kids start out like this early and they end up being overweight by 10-15 lbs by age 7. dont want to see you in that position because its HARD to teach a 7year old to eat healthy-they begin to tantrum
How does one handle meal times with a 2-year-old who looks at what adults are eating and wants it, for example Romaine lettuce with 4-inch chunks of raw carrots? Are adults supposed to say,"We are all sitting down together at family mealtime but you can't have what we are eating"? Or give them the huge carrot and let them choke?
heck, I had this hand grinder for my son. "toddler" foods are just a marketing ploy to keep making parents buy their product.... about the same as pull ups for kids over 3 (except where medically needed)
Just cut it into pieces and enjoy it while it lasts. With a lot of that age it will soon become a battle to get them to eat anything healthy.
That reminds me of the time my daughter (just turned 3 at the time) was watching her dad eat a really super spicy taco. She asked for some. He said no, that it was too spicy hot. She kept persisting vehemently. So he finally said "ok but you might not like this".... and let her have a bite. To her credit, she didn't cry - just got real big-eyed and gulped the glass of milk I had ready for her. And now she knows what we mean when we say something is spicy.
We fed our kids the same thing we were eating since they were old enough to chew real food! (We did not give them big chunks of raw carrots, of course, we chopped it up very small or simply left chokable foods off of their portions.) Feeding small children "real food" reduces the chance that you will end up with a six-year-old who will only eat chicken nuggets and peanut butter and jelly. My kids eat EVERYTHING, including "yucky" foods like asparagus, spinach, and fish. My seven-year-old daughter helped me make chicken florentine the other night, and ate two whole pieces herself! We almost never made some special "kid food" for the children, unless DH and I were going out on a date night or something.
NO NO NO NO NO. allow them to try very small portions. limit them completely. i suggest starting them on "grown up" food such as a diet. ive seen WAY too many kids start out like this early and they end up being overweight by 10-15 lbs by age 7. dont want to see you in that position because its HARD to teach a 7year old to eat healthy-they begin to tantrum
WTF? The article is about a kid wanting to eat lettuce and carrots. This isn't a kid that will need to learn healthy eating at age 7.
My daughter has been eating "adult" food since she was 6 months old. She refused to eat baby food, so her pediatrician advised feeding her whatever we were eating, just making sure that it was small enough that she wouldn't choke on it. My 2 year old son eats raw carrots all the time and doesn't choke on them. As soon as they have some molars they can eat things like that. If you're still worried about him choking, use a cheese grater and grate his carrot over some lettuce. You're lucky yours wants salad, my son won't even try anything that looks like lettuce.
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