A child asks you to buy him something to eat immediately after the kindergarten and the teacher complains that pipsqueak not eat together with other babies? Why is this happening and how to help your child adapt more quickly?
Psychologists believe that refusal to eatin an unfamiliar place - a natural protective reaction of a young child. In most cases, after a while, even if gradually, but all will be adjusted. However, this does not mean that you just need to wait, first of all, try to analyze the reason and help your crumbs to adapt to the new environment for him.
The reasons why a child does not want to have in the garden
1. Child is sick or something was bothering him (Stuffy nose, teething or spoiled tooth pain in the throat or stomach, the initial stage of viral infection and so on. D.). Of course, most mom or teacher noticed that with a child that something is wrong. The child may refuse to eat, and not only in the garden, but also at home.
What to do: try to indirect or direct features to understand what ails the child. Perhaps he even the answer to a direct question. But to ask "what hurts you," as a rule, it does not make sense - does not help.
2. Protest against Breakfast. If a child ate breakfast at home and on the road in the garden is also a muffin with a banana ate in the garden, he would not have. Children's breakfast is generally a separate issue - to the baby ate breakfast with a good appetite and went to benefit, from the moment of awakening must be at least an hour, and for some even more. So, if you want the baby is fully joined the regime, do not feed it to the garden.
What to do: Another option - if you find it easier and safer to feed your baby at home, arrange with the teacher that will result in the child after breakfast, or while the others sitting at the table, your going to play.
3. unusual food. In any kindergarten there is a set of dishes that are useful and necessary for the growth and development of the child. Of course, you also fed his house only the most useful, but... If a child does not like broccoli, pumpkin, eggs and spinach, you or replace these products to those that the baby to taste or come up with clever dishes, which unloved products imperceptible. And in the garden there is no alternative - that prepared, then you should eat. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the child protests.
What to do: unusual, sooner or later, becomes habitual. Especially good for the collective intake of food appetite - the majority of children with selective appetite followed by the others, and at least try unfamiliar foods. Well, if he refuses burnt porridge or soup in which float slippery onion flakes, may be worth another look for the garden?
4. Unfamiliar surroundings. Children 2-3 years old are often painfully react to change their familiar surroundings. After all, it is one thing - to play, and quite another to such an important moment as the food in a big team. Children's bodies can turn on the "protection", the gastric juice will not be produced, and he simply did not want to eat. According to psychologists, for adaptation in kindergarten children need from 2 weeks to a month.
What to do: such "blocks" may not just food - there are children who can not be in the garden go to the toilet, for example. That's it - the problem of adaptation, which all goes differently and take different times. In this situation, you just have to wait until the baby will be a sense of security, a lot in this case depends on the atmosphere in the group, friendliness educator and your credibility.
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If a child refuses to eat, what not to do absolutely
- can not encourage your child to eat - food abuse is one of the ways of torture kindergarten Soviet past. Food eaten through her tears and no appetite, no benefit will not bring child's body. Agree with the tutor that force-feed your baby can not.
- abuse, or worse, blame the child who is not, and so sweet. To rectify the situation in ways impossible, and settle in the small person a sense of guilt - it is easy.
Think, observe, analyze. And be patient, in most cases, the child develops a problem, and your task is not panic and try to help preschoolers, because in school he also expects their daily routine and menus.
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