What Do You Know about Baby Feeding?
Sunday, March 19th, 2006Dear friends,
If you’re a first-time parent, you may not know that feeding time is a wonderful time for your baby to learn about many things as well. What are they? Check them out in Food & Nutrition article below.
Don’t miss the news about the risk of having dogs in the house, particularly if you also have kids.
Another thing you’ll get today is some tips to encourage your kids to set their goals.
Sincerely yours,
Adwina Jackson
Editor of InspiringParenting
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Feeding Time - Do You Know That It’s Also a Learning Time for Your Baby?
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” Adding cheese, meat/chicken broth, or sweet vegetable like carrot is a good way of replacing sugar and salt. ” |
by Adwina Jackson
Do you realize that feeding time is also a learning time for your little angel?
You probably don’t recognize it. From a portion of mashed fruits and vegetables, your baby is learning a lot of things. Even soon after she was born, she already learned how to suck milk from her mother’s breast.
Later, when she is ready for her first solid foods, she’ll do amazing things more than you can imagine. If you think that eating is just an ordinary activity (yes, to us, adults), it’s absolutely going to be a very important phase in her life.
When your baby is 6 months old and is introduced to solid foods, there is a list of skills she’ll learn. She will discover more abilities when she gets older because she’ll have more variety of foods.
When is the right time for your baby to get solids?
- when she’s able to sit upright and keep her head in a steady position
- when she seems hungry after getting breastmilk or formula
- when she’s curious about what everyone around her is eating
Here are things she’ll learn while eating:
Let her explore her food by holding and put it into her mouth. She will find out that there’s another kind of food she has besides liquid, which is breastmilk or formula. Cereal, fruit, and biscuit are most likely the first solid foods you’ll give her, and they have different textures which she distinguishes from her tongue.
Knowing that there are several tastes in her food is another incredible thing she’ll find out. However, it’s better if you don’t put sugar and salt in her meal until she reaches one year old. Adding cheese, meat/chicken broth, or sweet vegetable like carrot is a good way of replacing sugar and salt.
Don’t forget to tell her the color of the foods while feeding her, for example ‘the yellow potato’, ‘the green spinach’, ‘the orange carrot’, ‘the green broccoli’, and ‘the red tomato’.
Swallowing solid foods will be a new thing she gets after getting only milk. When she already has teeth, chewing is another exciting experience she’ll learn.
When she’s older than 6 months, she’ll be able to grasp and move her hands toward her mouth. Give her finger food like cheese sticks and sliced fruits and vegetables, and let her feed herself.
Later on, she will probably be a picky eater. It’s the sign that you need to be more creative in preparing her meals. Not only should they be suitable with her development and digestion system, but also enticing for her appetite.
Again, while feeding your baby, tell her about the kinds and the colors of the foods she’s eating. It’s a great time for her to be familiarized with them.
At last, imagine how a bowl of mashed potato with cheese and broccoli is a great source for your baby to learn about many things in her first year of life.
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Encourage Your Child to Set Goals
Goal setting is important in anybody’s life, including your Children’s. It’s better to let them know the value of goal setting as early as possible. Explain to them that it has the power to change their lives.
Below are some simple ways to encourage them to set their goals:
- Let them dare to dream
- Ask them to visualize those dreams
- Encourage them to set simple and easy to reach goals first, when they’re used to it, let them decide by themselves
- Never blow off their goal ideas
- Give your children their own planner or notebook to write down their goals
- Encourage and support their goals
- Appreciate if they achieve those goals
- If they don’t manage to achieve the goals, remind them that their effort is more important than the result
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