What are common mistakes parents make when feeding children?
What parents want to be careful of is allowing the child to become more responsible for food than the parent. Parents make the mistake of allowing the child to decide what foods they’re going to eat and when they’re going to eat, and allowing the child to basically control the food happenings of that households. Parents definitely need to keep responsibility. They need to be the ones to show their children how to eat healthily. Parents need to be the ones who are buying and preparing healthy foods and instructing their children to eat at appropriate times – setting up schedules for them. The other concern I have when it comes to feeding our children and making sure they’re healthy is the type of foods that we’re choosing. Parents choose fewer and fewer fresh foods and instead select fast and convenience foods. My word of caution to parents is if you need to go to that resource, use it, but figure out a way that you can add something to the food to make it a little more nutritious for y
