Sweets for kids. A headache for parents
A bun with chocolate paste in the morning, cookies in the afternoon, sweet glazed cheese and juice for a snack and a piece of cake at night. Few children will refuse such a menu. But, as you probably noticed, the more sweets appear in our house, the more often our children refuse healthy snacks. They are ready to devour a bowl of sweets in one shot.
Today we will share with you some practical tips to help build a harmonious relationship between your children and yummy treats.
1. Cook tasty meals!
Show children that there are many tasty and healthy dishes. Of course, if there is only soup for lunch and just porridge for breakfast, then the baby will surely involuntarily reach for sweets. Children do not require dishes made from expensive and rare ingredients. Instead, use your imagination in cooking. Try to cook porridge garnished with berries, nuts, dried fruits, or scrambled eggs in the shape of a monkey or fruits unusually sliced and beautifully laid out. Such tricks will make your everyday dishes desired.
2. One sweet per day
Let the child decide when he will eat sweets: after breakfast, lunch or dinner. Let him decide which yummy to eat but only one per day.
3. No place for soda at home
There is a lot of sugar in packaged juices, store-bought milkshakes, lemonade and even seemingly harmless water with different flavors. What to do? After all, we cannot permanently ban our children from drinking soda. What we can do is to instill good taste from an early age. Prepare homemade lemonade, cocktails and replace sugar with honey or date syrup. Buy a juicer. It is the most valuable device for a home where children live. What could be better than freshly squeezed natural juice? It will make sugary drink from the box seem absolutely tasteless!
4. Fight sugar addiction together
Often, we adults are even more addicted to sweets than our children. The younger generation completely adopts the habits of adults. Therefore always say such words as: “We do not eat that,” “our family does not like soda, it is too sugary.” Focus on the fact that your whole family lives this way, and the children will not feel alienated.
5. Do not forget about vitamins
Often, cravings for a particular food can be a sign of a deficiency in a certain vitamin, so try to vary your children’s diet and regularly give children vitamin supplements.
6. Attention instead of candy
Very often parents give children unhealthy sweets when they do not have time for them or when they do not want to play with their children or walk or communicate with them and so on. “Get a lollipop and get away from me”, they say. We must forget such words permanently, if we want children to grow up healthy both physically and psychologically.
