What are the secrets you need to know my mother, to the ability to eat with a spoon was for the child to new remarkable achievement?
Age baby gets to the important mark - 1 year. This is a time of constant discovery and development of new skills, and how many of them there will be! And among them is an important skill as the skill to eat with a spoon, and then drink from a cup.
Most children begin to develop the first cutlery in the year, and they can already after three months scoop and send in the mouth solid food with a spoon, and a 1 year 5 months pipsqueak could have himself and more liquid food.
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Useful gift - spoon
Make sure that the first spoon was comfortable for your baby, is not very big and not too small, fit his mouth. Optimal small teaspoon - metal or made of solid plastic. It would be wonderful if the spoon will be a special gift for your baby on his first birthday.
Now on sale there are many bright and beautiful sets designed specifically for children, beginners on their own to eat.
First toddler will keep spoon cam: do not let this disturbing, it is absolutely normal for a child up to 2 years. Gradually he learns to do everything right.
Experts advise to teach the baby immediately to hold a spoon with your fingers. But if it is more convenient at first pinch spoon in a fist, then simply periodically demonstrate how holding a spoon adults, saying this: "Look, I hold the spoon this way, you too soon so learn! "
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Table manners
All the kids in the first stage separate breakfast like to experiment, test your cereal or cottage cheese not only tastes. Sitting in his chair, they throw food on the floor and with interest studying the laws of free fall.
- And here is where the baby as soon as possible should get from their parents is a very important promise: "I'm going to throw it is impossible!" Encourage your child to example, a small ball and say, "But you can throw the ball!" crumbs from the outset it is important to realize that the food - it is not a toy.
- And what if your chubby little boy had to eat to their liking, as they say, on the move, traveling through the apartment? Explain what a place to eat in your home exclusively kitchen. After all, to wean a child to eat anywhere then it will be very difficult for the habit.
Fork and napkin
Own drink from a cup, children begin about a year. For one and a half years they have rather cleverly own spoon.
And when the baby should appear own fork? Refer to the child. If, after one and a half years, he does not eat with a fork, give her the biennium and teach the crumbs to use it! And also help to understand what food to eat with a fork, and which - with a spoon. And of course, as soon as possible show your little one how to use a napkin.
Gadgets - get out of the kitchen!
In many families, children's feeding constant companions are gadgets: the baby opens his mouth obediently absorbed watching your favorite cartoons. Parents do not realize that in fact 'implanting' baby on board.
As a result, the crumb becomes restless and moody, without the screen there is no longer want. Talk with your child, tell him a poem, a story or use a toy, "Look, baby, Petya good eats with a spoon!"
If you do not start to develop a spoon in a year (which is the age when the child actively learns new things and when he has a great desire to hold a spoon), it is easy to miss this moment. And then later on the child decides that the food - only my mother's care.
So, the secret to successful development of the spoon is simple: a clear indication of the rules related to food, and a little imagination.
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