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Mealtime Complaints
Our children have come into a habit of mealtime complaints. The food toe eat is good—and by any standards adequate. We have tried to shots our children hots fortunate they are to have wholesome, nutritious food when so many others in the world are hungry. It does no good—the complaints continue. Is there any solution?
There is no easy solution, but the following suggestions may be of some value:
1. Be sure you have food that is not only adequate but palatable, and that it is prepared and saved in an attractive way. Variety is important, also. Guard against putting too large helpings on your children’s plates. 2. Overcome the tendency to say, “Now be sure to eat this as it is good for you.” Children—and even adults— tion’t especially like to eat what is good for them. It doesn’t help the situation, either, to keep reminding them how fortunate they are to have wholesome, nutritious food. 3. Let your -children help you plan the menus for a day or a week. Let tnrm suggest special foods that they would like and how they want them to Le served.
4. Have meals on time. Be sure that your children are hungry, which means you will not let them stuff themselves with knickknacks just before mealtime. It is important that you and your husband show that you enjoy the food.
If the children complain, quietly let them know that this is all the food there is and if they do not care to eat it they must go Without. When they discover that their complaints do not especially d:«turb you and that they must go hungry if they do not eat what is put before them, they are likely to quit making such a fuss over the food.
When They Fight Back
My two-year-old son, the only child, is getting into the habit of striking me cr just striking at me when he doesn’t gcPtrkat he wants-o^when f tpankhitn. I’ve ignored it at times and Tve tried spanking him again but both methods have failed. Do you think he will continue to do this or is it just a stage of childhood ho is in? How would you suggest breaking him of this, before it gets to be a habit? The chance* are that this fa a passing phase in the development of your child and, therefore,-there is no special cause for alarm on your part, h might be well, nevertheless, for you to keep in mind the following: ' A child of two quite naturally (trikes back if he is slapped. It may be possible, therefore, Oiat the reason he is
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