1, children are curious and like to eat colorful food.
2, sensitive to taste, sensitive to the taste and cold of food.
Children's taste is very sensitive. They are not only sensitive to sweet and sour food, but also sensitive to bitter, salty and smelly food. Any food that adults find spicy is spicy and they don't want to try it. Therefore, it is not appropriate to give children food that is too cold or too hot.
3. I like to eat food with knives.
For some foods that are not often touched or have strange shapes, such as fungus, seaweed and kelp, children are often skeptical and unwilling to try them easily. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out pre-meal education before children taste and stimulate their appetite for food.
I like eating food with my hands.
Raw cucumbers, tomatoes, skewered dried tofu, braised pork liver and other foods can all be eaten in your hand, which is extremely playful. Therefore, children are generally interested in these foods. Using this psychological characteristic of loving food, children can eat some foods with high nutritional value, such as pig liver and other foods that children don't like to eat.
Most people don't like to eat too full rice.
Children often feel wronged when they see that a meal is too full. They are afraid of being accused of eating slowly or unable to eat, but they like to add their own food over and over again, and proudly say, I ate two or three bowls. Therefore, when adults prepare the first bowl of rice for their children, they should give them the opportunity to add their own meals according to their children's appetite, and cultivate their self-confidence and hands-on ability to eat.
6. Children who are picky eaters are prone to emotional stress when eating.
Those children who are timid, weak and have partial eclipse habits are particularly nervous when eating. Especially when it comes to fat meat, radish, garlic and so on. Things they don't like, they often try to get rid of them when eating, and sometimes they are thrown under the table or stuffed in their pockets when people are not paying attention. If adults force them to eat again, they will often cry. Children's nervousness will make sympathetic nerves excessively excited, thus inhibiting gastrointestinal peristalsis, reducing the secretion of digestive juice and producing a feeling of fullness.
Therefore, preparing and cooking food according to children's psychological characteristics is an important content to create a healthy dining environment.
Second, it is very important for teachers to provide children with a dining environment and pre-meal guidance. Teachers should give children a good dining environment and let them eat happily by themselves. In fact, it is not easy to do this. I think teachers can do the following:
1), respect children.
While respecting others, you actually respect yourself. Although children are still young, they actually have their own set of eating habits. Maybe their eating habits are not acceptable to us adults. But if children are forced to eat reluctantly according to the way we adults eat, I think this will not only make children have psychological obstacles, but also be detrimental to their healthy growth. Therefore, teachers should accept children's preferences for food and help children get rid of the habit of picky eaters step by step.
2) Stimulate children's appetite
Children seem to know nothing, but in fact, they have high requirements for the quality of food. The stimulation of color, fragrance, taste and shape of food can make people produce conditioned emission, secrete a lot of digestive juice and arouse appetite. Therefore, before each meal, the teacher should invite a child to introduce the menu, so that everyone can talk about the nutrition of the dishes and smell the fragrance of the dishes. This can stimulate children's appetite, and to some extent, it can change children's preferences for food and picky eaters.
3) Encourage children to eat more or allow children to eat only half.
If the child has a meal, he really can't eat it. The teacher encourages them to take one more bite, or eat half of the food in the bowl, which can relieve the psychological pressure of children and make it easier for them to finish the other half.
4), in the usual education, subtly affect children.
Teachers can discuss and exchange food-related topics with children in daily conversations, and can also educate children to develop good eating habits by telling stories, singing children's songs, painting and arranging theme walls. In daily life, it exerts a subtle influence on children and helps them form good eating habits.
The cultivation of good habits requires our unremitting efforts. I think children will inevitably have some problems when they grow up, just like picky eaters. We can't just reprimand and complain that children are picky eaters. Instead, we should start from the psychological characteristics of children, use our brains to find ways and open the door to their hearts with our hearts. Only in this way can they open their hearts and accept our correct concept of dietary education. Of course, it is impossible to cultivate children's good eating habits overnight, but as long as we don't give up and do a good job in children's daily diet education, I believe our children will certainly develop good eating habits, have a healthy body and thrive.