- By age 1, eating table food.
- Less interest in food after 1 year since their growth slows
some and they want to learn other things (like talking).
- Set up a pleasant eating situation so child will feel eating
is pleasant.
- Present nutritious foods for child to choose from.
- Offer a food the child does not seem to like again a few
weeks later.
- Don't force eating.
- Children will eat when they are hungry.
- Learn a few nutritious meals that your child likes. Make
a list of them and rotate. Add new foods from time to time.
- Let your child help prepare some nutritious foods with you.
- In the store, name foods together. Make up a list of foods
with pictures for the child to locate items in the store to
pass the shopping time.
Safety
- Shape vitamins are leading cause of poison if children take
too many.
- Do not keep poison items in food containers
- Check medicines for safety caps. Ask in the drug store for
safety caps.
- Cover electrical outlets with tape or inserts.
- Cut up solids foods and avoid choke foods (grapes, nuts,
hot dogs).
- Use a car safety seat EACH TIME the child is in the car.
-Use helmets EACH TIME the child gets on a bike.
- Buckets with liquid are a leading cause of toddler drowning.
- Check rugs for slippage.
- Keep toothpicks, lighters, cigarettes away from children.
- Locks all guns away from children.
- Put pans on rear burners and turn handles in to stove.
- NEVER SHAKE A CHILD. It can cause brain damage.
- Don't let child play with plastic bags or toy balloons (choking,
suffocation)
- Screens will not prevent children from falling from windows.
