Hello, everyone. I welcome you all again to my blog, and I am very excited to write and share my blog with this community. It is a pleasure sharing this post with you, and I hope we will sustain this project with the support of the community members and the Hive ecosystem. The community's future is bright, and to reap its benefits, we need to collaborate.
In this post, we will discuss the prompt topic of the week and I will share my post entry as well. This topic is something I write from my own experience just like what I shared in my previous post for the last week's prompt. When it comes to feeding children, is one of the most important things as a parent or child caretaker, you should ensure it is always observed. Nutrition is very important and dietitians and nutritionists always tell us to eat balanced diet food to keep our bodies fit and strong.
It's always a tedious option for children to switch from breastfeeding to spoon-fed or hand-fed. Because they have been used to that for long, they will see it as a strange way of feeding until they adopt that eating style. Even the food, no matter the quantity will be hard for the child to quickly switch and start eating just like that.
In the house here, my brother's 7-month-old baby doesn't prefer to take breast milk any longer but he too doesn't want you to feed him with food. He rather prefers to handle the food in his hands, taste it, and see if it is eatable before he goes ahead to start eating.
Initially, before he started eating food aside from breastfeeding, we had to force the food into his mouth and once he tasted it and it was good, he then went ahead to eat and swallow, otherwise, he would spit it out. Now what we do is that we get him his food in a bowl which he eats from there. Even with that, he scatters the food all around the floor before eating lol, I know that is part of children's behavior. They prefer to eat things from the ground rather than what is in a bowl given to them.
Is there a skill to adopt when feeding a child? Ah well, I will say you should present the food to the child in a fun way by singing a lullaby or something to make the child happy and engaged with the food he or she is eating. Also, make sure you have no obstacles around to distract him or her from the food such as TV, Toys, etc.
You need to make a good selection in terms of food and try to identify which one of them he or she likes eating the most. It is not easy to handle a child and I can testify to that, lol. Don't think I have a child, haha, I am only talking from experience.
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