The Importance Of Healthy Eating In Children

As a parent, raising children can be challenging yet a fulfilling task. For one, potty training can take months before your small children can master going to the toilet to poo and pee on their own. Add to that is the fact that children tend to do anything mostly out of curiosity, and may even pester you with “why’s” all the time.

Apart from these usual normal parenting challenges, nutrition seems to be another issue that parents tackle on a regular basis. As much as we want to, it is quite frustrating to make our children eat one full meal for some reason.

However, “fussy eating in children is completely normal,” according to Neha Goyal in an article on TheHealthOrange.com. After all, “it’s a phase that we’ve all gone through” which most probably frustrated our own parents as well, and yes, it’s your turn to go through

For a household with picky eaters, one food that most children hate are vegetables. We adults know how healthy vegetables are, and how can greatly impact ours and our children’s health as well. However, we cannot blame our children’s delicate taste, especially if they developed a liking on cake, ice cream, pizza and other non-veggie meals.

However, we can still work that out. An article on WeHaveKids.com suggests the following to make our children eat more nutritious food a.k.a. Vegetables:

* Encourage your children to participate in meal planning. This is important, to avoid parents that tend to power-struggle with their children during mealtime. Instead, you can ask you children to plan meals by letting them choose which foods to include and how they will be prepared. Do your children want their potatoes mashed or cut into fun-shaped sizes? Do they like their carrots raw and crunchy or cooked? That way, your children can also feel they are important in the decision making when it comes to preparing meals, the healthier way of