There are many ideas and beliefs about food, eating, feeding, and our bodies that are well accepted in our community. It can be tricky to guide your children with their eating patterns when there is so much confusing and sometimes contradictory information available. Children can vary enormously in their nutritional needs, patterns, and appetite, so an important aspect of your child’s eating patterns is developing an understanding of their unique, individual, and perhaps fluctuating appetite. Research tells us that most difficulties with weight and eating patterns arise when children ignore their natural appetite signals in favour of doing what pleases others (such as finishing everything on their plate) or eating for non-hungry reasons.
Your job as a parent, is to provide the food you feel is appropriate at regular intervals throughout the day. Your child’s job is to eat how much they feel like.
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Your job as a parent, is to provide the food you feel is appropriate at regular intervals throughout the day. Your child’s job is to eat how much they feel like.
CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE THE INTERACTIVE
MYTHBUSTING ACTIVITY
