Eat WIT eat H YOUR EYES & NOSE & EARS
In an ideal world, all children would eat everything. Are you aiming for this in your family? Then you need to start engaging all your child’s senses. Scolding, pleading and fighting won’t bring you far anyway.
The secret, some experts say, lies in making mealtimes so interesting that your little one simply can’t resist the temptation. To achieve this, you can harness the senses and curiosity, your child’s most important exploring mechanisms.
TOUCH AND FEEL BEFORE YOU EAT
From the get-go, give your baby and toddler ample opportunity to feel his food and familiarise himself with it. Finger food like blocks of cheese or carrot batons are ideal.
Fiddling with food like this can be quite messy. Although you’d like him to learn good table manners, it’s important for him to get enough opportunities to discover his food like that. Comment on what he’s feeling, so that he develops the
