There is no secret that the weight problems start from family.
Children always eat what they receive from their parents, same way they receive the education, and the way you get them used to eat it is very important for their health.
Of course, I am not going to say that all the parents are not taking care of their children, on the contrary, most of them are aware and they try to adapt their children to a healthy eating system.
Unfortunately, there are two major mistakes that some parents usually do with their kids.
Some of them simply do not care what their children should eat while some others are spoiling their kids and give them all what they ask.
The trend of the last years is the fast food.
It became a symbol of the modern life for the young generation, and wherever you turn around, the fast food publicity is there.
This thing makes very hard a parents' mission to teach a child how he should eat healthy.
When it comes to food, there is a problem that can affect your life and your child's life.
You must be aware that you can not leave your child the choice when it comes about food.
I agree that giving them the liberty to take their own decisions will help them in life, but I also consider that their health should be always on the first plan.
It is very hard to determine children to like all the healthy foods, but with patience and using some sneaky tricks, you may get them to try and to get used with a few of them.
Just use your imagination to make the meals funny for them and you will be surprised by the results.
Here you have some ideas: * Rename the fruits and vegetables in a funny way.
Usually, most kids accept to eat foods with funny names.
Also, you can transform the meal in a game or a competition, to persuade your child that the fruits are the rivals' secret weapons and by eating them he will get advantage over his competitors, etc.
* Hide the healthy food in normal one.
They will always accept a pizza with less cheese and more spinach on it, as long as they do not know it.
Of course, the ideal is that your kid understand the importance of fruits and vegetables, but, if this is not possible, you must find the way to make him eat without knowing what is inside.
* Change the taste of the foods.
Combine the vegetables or the fruits between them, use unusual dressings, like peanut butter, eventually ask your kid what he prefer between this and that, but give him always the choices you want.
* Prepare small portions of junk food making them very salty or very spicy, and make him try both, healthy food and junk food.
Usually, he will find more tasty the healthy food, after testing them both.
* Do not limit yourself just to give funny names to fruits and vegetables, make them look funny also.
Create funny designs on the plate, set them up to look like animals, plants, flowers, people, cars, etc.
Generally, kids like playing with their food, and if this helps to get them to eat healthier, why not? * Promise them incentives if they eat all they have in the plate.
Think about their desired toy or a walk in the park, you should know better what they want most, and offer it as a reward in exchange of eating healthy food.
Just do not exaggerate and give them the possibility to blackmail you later.
Using your imagination and creativity, you may find several ways to make your kids eat healthier and in the mean time to enjoy their meals.
It is hard in the beginning, but if they get used to eat the same foods several times, they are ending to accept it as something normal and even to like it.
Nobody says that this is an easy task, but is your duty as parents to take care of your childrens' future.
Hopefully, doing this your children will end up loving the healthy foods for the rest of their lives.
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