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Last week my aunt told to my mother who her toddler eating habits. She have two great kids - a two year old girl and ten month old boy. Now the baby has started eating but who will not eat anything if it is not a cracker, chip, or cookie. When it was time for him to start eating chunkier foods he would, not then he stopped eating the smoother foods all together until he was just drinking milk and eating crackers periodically.

Most parents believe that all toddlers go through the same thing, my aunt read something once about kids taste buds go through changes as the kids grow. So, something there liked for the last year, all a sudden want pass the lips. It lasts a couple of days and then there see something that looks interesting on your plate and start eating again.

Here is my aunt try to make good eating habits for your toddler or preschooler habits:

1. Try to let him graze. Sometimes they do not realize they are eating food if they eat a little bit here and there as they are playing. You can leave a plate with some cubes of cheese, cut vegetables or cut fruits sitting on a coffee table nears where he plays to see if he/she’ll just eat some when there is no pressure.

2. Try to change is getting a little more protein and some more vegetables into your children. Hiding them in the mashed potatoes is a great idea, although, as you say, it’s a little tedious making mashed potatoes all the time.

3. Or you can make up half of a dozen muffins or pancakes and then just hand them out to him over the course of the next couple of days. Also, you can try to let them choose a new fruit or egg each week and they enjoy the fact they get to choose what they eat.

4. Try making things in fun ways, in ways they like it - pancakes are always a hit – my mother just mash anything together and cook it - but she doesn’t really want to be cooking like this all the time, and surely frying everything all the time, even in minimal oil/butter, cannot be good in the
long run.

5. If you think your children really not getting enough nutrition, make sure he/she takes vitamins (not the gummy kind) just to make sure you’ve got his basic vitamin and mineral needs covered.

6. If your child watches TV or videos, play video games, make sure your children sitting in his high chair whiles watches them, and put some nutritious food in front of your child. Your child may eat a bunch of things he/she’d normally refuse, just because he/she’s too engrossed in the video.

7. Give yourself a few days of consistent behavioral therapy. If your child refuses what is there in front of them, explain that you will not make anything else and that they will have to wait until dinner, be calm but mean what you say. Because they are at the age of testing their boundaries, they see how far they can go.

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Significant relationships require quality communication, getting to understand each other, always tell the truth. Nothing destroys trust and respect faster than dishonesty. Telling each other how much we appreciate all the kind things that have been done for us.

A lot of people unfortunately cannot making quality communication in the family. Or find time to spend with their families, and finally making quality family time a luxury instead of a normal occurrence. With a little bit of planning and some creativity, however, any family can have some quality family time and can enjoy the company of loved ones.

Parents and children never would want to allow a communication gap to develop among them and they hope to talk together freely. Also to open communication. But how to make it? The first think and do if you are a parent is make sure that communication is open at least from your side.

With open communication parents and children spending time with loved ones and family is an incredulous experience. Children love to spend time with their families and bask in the love that comes with it.  It is not surprising that quality communication in the family time ranks up there as one of the most important values in the lives of average people.

To order making quality communication in the family, parents before start to give advice to child, make sure you really listen emphatically to what they are saying. Parents must feeling. If you start giving advice, solutions, without first understanding their perspective, they will check out and not hear anything you are saying.

Finally, important things parent can do are to involve yourself in your children’s activities. Build activities that involve in communication like playing or cooking together with your child.  Always try to integrate the activities of your children to make them more friendly and perhaps best of all.