Gluttony in children is caused by many reasons, the main reasons are as follows: (1) Caused by spoiling.

In many cases, children's "polyphagia" is caused by over-indulging parents.

Parents often provide too much food to their children, so that the children can gain the psychological satisfaction of being loved while passively eating, thus creating a greater need for food.

Parents often use food as rewards. Over time, children will become gluttonous.

(2) Insufficient demand.

Children's physiological needs are multifaceted. When a certain need cannot be met, they will eat food instead, resulting in gluttony.

(3) Safety compensation.

For example, when a child is beaten and scolded by his parents or bullied by a child, as long as the other person brings out a few pieces of candy, the child will immediately stop crying, and the sweetness of the candy will make the child temporarily forget the insecurity he just felt.

(4) Emotional compensation.

Child psychologists let a group of only children and a group of non-only children of the same age and weight live together and control the supply of non-staple food.

As a result, during the two days, the amount of staple food consumed by the non-only children was much greater than that of the only children.

Later, the parents of the two groups of children were asked to take care of them, and their appetite gradually became closer.

This suggests that non-only children can only supplement their emotional needs with more food when they lack care.

(5) Frustration reaction.

When children are frustrated in their higher-level needs, they tend to return to their need for food.

Sometimes after children are frustrated, they often do not direct their attacks at the things that cause the frustration, but eat more food to vent their dissatisfaction.

For this reason, parents should find out the reasons why their children are gluttonous and provide targeted education.

As for how to educate gluttonous children, Germany's Mann-Luoma believes that he hopes to make children understand through advice alone.

Man-luoma suggests that in order to get children to regain a correct attitude towards eating, the whole family should have time to eat together once a day.

During meals together, children should be allowed to talk about their own affairs and worries, freeing them from inner stress.

Ann Bechlin, a pediatrician and psychologist in Basel, believes that adopting a "self-service meal approach" at the dinner table is the key to helping children treat their diet reasonably.

If your child can help when cooking and shopping, and decide what dishes to put on the table, he will switch to healthier foods with fewer calories.

It is also important for parents to take their children and the whole family to engage in outdoor activities in their spare time.