Eating is an indispensable part of children's daily life. Cultivating children's good eating habits can promote their physical and mental health. However, children have formed bad eating habits such as picky eating, partial eclipse and playing while eating, which further affects the healthy growth of children and the cultivation of good personality. According to the problems existing in children's eating, this paper discusses the methods of cultivating children's good eating habits.

1. Various problems in children's meals mainly include

(1) Bad emotions during meals. When children are in a happy mood during meals, the nerve excitement that dominates the secretion of digestive glands is dominant, and the secretion of digestive juice increases, which promotes the digestion of food. Therefore, it is also very important to keep children in a good mood during meals. But in fact, not all children are eating happily.

(2) Bad eating habits. It is quite common for children to eat time. It not only affects normal eating, but also brings inconvenience to adults, which is not good for children's health. The reason is related to children's habits of eating and playing, talking while eating, looking around and so on.

second, how to cultivate children's good eating habits

so how should we cultivate children's good eating habits? In view of the above problems in eating, let's talk about the specific methods to cultivate children's good eating habits.

(a) reasonable organization, so that children have a good dining mood

1. Treat children with different meals correctly. According to the characteristics of children of all ages, treat children with different appetite correctly. When eating, children who are sick and have poor appetite should be provided with light and delicious meals, and they should not be forced to eat all the food. If the children don't eat much for a long time, but their mental state is good, they should respect their own wishes and eat as much as they can.

2, home * * * education, control snacks. Generally in kindergartens, children are not allowed to eat snacks. This mainly occurs at home. Many parents come by their children, and their children's snacks never leave their mouths, so they don't feel hungry. Some parents keep adding snacks to their children's mouths as soon as they get up, especially on weekends. Parents buy whatever snacks their children want to eat, which makes them feel hungry. Kindergartens should obtain the cooperation and support of parents, adopt the method of moderation, and control and control the amount and frequency of snacks eaten by children. The varieties eaten in small quantities should be both fine and "superficial". Such as raw vegetables, melons and fruits.

3. Set an example and eat scientifically. Picky food is a common bad habit of small class children in dining. This requires teachers and parents to set an example. Through understanding and investigation, it is concluded that many children's rejection of some foods has a certain relationship with the family they live in. For example, children are often directly or indirectly influenced by adults' usual manners or some parents' own dining or picky eating habits. This should be improved step by step through communication with parents.

4, quiet activities before meals. The main purpose of pre-meal quiet activities is to help children adjust their emotions and let them eat in a good and pleasant mood. Talking before meals can make children's more excited emotions gradually return to calm; Suddenly, the negative state caused by the result of the game turns slowly into positive; Through the transfer of attention, children in a bad mood can minimize negative emotions ... The fundamental purpose of this series of measures is to let children eat with a happy mood.

5. create a pleasant dining atmosphere. In order to ensure the good mood of children when eating, teachers should not deal with problems or criticize children before and after eating. For example, if a child hits someone and does something wrong, the teacher should wait for him to finish eating before dealing with it, so as not to affect the appetite of young children. Teachers should ensure that children have a pleasant meal, and never let them cry, so as not to suck food into the trachea, and even more, they should not ban eating as a means of corporal punishment.

6. Create a warm dining environment. Kindergartens should be located in quiet areas as far as possible, and sound insulation walls can be added if conditions permit. The dining room should have heating and cooling facilities, and the room temperature should be adjusted in cold and overheated weather. The cleanliness of the dining room must be cleaned before meals, especially the toys and teaching AIDS should be put away neatly; In kindergartens where the activity room also serves as a dining room, a tablecloth and a screen will be laid when eating, which will make children feel the difference between the activity room and the dining room and improve their interest in dining. Play beautiful and soothing music. Plays should be serenades, light music, piano music, etc. that children are familiar with; Bowls and chopsticks should be of appropriate size, and strive to be beautiful, clean and durable. Too old tableware should be updated.