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Doctors Food For Kids

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Your responsibility as a parent is to offer healthy foods in a nurturing environment. Your child’s job is to decide what and how much of what is offered he will eat.

This is a very important concept and worth repeating to yourself from time to time. In simplest terms – provide a balanced diet for your toddler, limiting sweets and salt. Limit milk to 16 – 24 oz. per day and undiluted juice to a maximum of eight oz. per day.

The nutritional needs of babies and toddlers are different from those of adults. A typical toddler portion is one quarter of an adult portion. Do not restrict fat and cholesterol, which are necessary for adequate growth. Do not give babies and toddlers high fiber, low calorie foods, which may not have enough calories. Offer a variety of foods over time to your toddler.


Nurturing

  • Your toddler may start to seek out other children of her own age. But she may not play with them.
  • Your toddler’s clinginess to you will decrease as he/she starts to understand that you will be there.
  • Your toddler will like to participate in things that you do for him, such as undressing.
  • Your toddler will start to test her limits and show defiance, including increasing use of the word “no”.
  • Encourage cognitive ability development by allowing your toddler to explore and experiment safely.
  • Your toddler is growing their vocabulary rapidly; use books and conversation to help expand it.

Feeding Struggles

Feeding is an area where parents and toddlers can get into major power struggles. You may worry that your child is not eating enough or the right foods. This anxiety can lead to pressuring your child, which often results in resistance.

Remember, you are in control. You decide the food offered. Eventually, your child will get hungry and eat.