Getting Your Toddlers to Eat Their Meal

By: Lenore Chapman
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:20:38
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Do you sometimes had trouble getting your little ones to eat all their meals.

When I was in my child bearing years, my kids pediatrician always said, If they don't eat every meal, don't worry, they won't starve. My son was that way. He would get up from a nap and be grumpy, and wouldn't eat his lunch. Well, I would make him finger food and sit it on the coffee table in the livingroom where he was playing. It wasn't much, cheese, lunch meat in small pieces, or a sandwich cut in four small pieces, just big enough for his little hand. Before long the dish was cleaned up.

Something else I did, when my children were eating I would always tell them make me a happy plate. They would clean up all their meal and make sure I saw their happy plate. Of course, you have to make a big deal about it, and make it a game. Let's see who can make a happy plate first. My kids are 30 and 33 and I catch myself telling them to make me a happy plate. I have even said that to my husband. Of course he looked at me strange until I told him the story of the happy plate. He tells me to do the same.

My daughter has carried the happy plate over to her son. It seemed to work with him also. Well, until he grew up and started to school. Now he thinks that is sissy stuff.

I can almost bet he will do the same thing when he has his own little ones and they don't want to eat. Try this and see if it works with your little ones. The race is on to make the first happy plate.

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