From one year, the children discover all aspects of food: meals are varied and will soon be eating without assistance. But his meals must always be adapted. Update on food between one and three years.
Between one and three years, the child made many discoveries about the taste and nutrition. It is important to accompany the stages of his explorations buds.
A lack of skill.
Feeding baby 1 at 3 from 10 or 12 months, the child is interested in the contents of his plate and wants to touch the food. Around his first birthday, he is able to chew pieces efficiently through his first molars. He is very intrigued by the pieces he finds in his plate. He seized the triturated, the door to the mouth. He tries to take the spoon away from her mother. He uses his fingers to eat, plays with food, mixes and spreads. He experimented with the spoon and the returns on the tongue. The content that rarely happens to and the patience of parents is sometimes sorely tested! His early attempts fall short quickly. Everything fell. It is equally important to let that protect the soil and the table with an oilcloth! Gradually, the child will develop to address and 15-18 months, he is only able to eat with a spoon. Once this stage is reached, parents should avoid giving themselves something to eat. They need help if it encounters some difficulties, but do not do it systematically. The child is in danger of getting used to 2 years and it will be difficult to impose new eating alone.
Discovery of mastication
The child of 12 or 14 months eats usually installed in a small seat (high chair or relax) against adults. From 16 months, he is seated on a small chair and begins to have a hand-mouth coordination satisfying to eat alone even if he still needs help sometimes. Located at the table, he needs help, as his motor skills to grasp a spoon, cover the mouth and finish his plate. The discovery of new textures continues with the introduction of vegetables and pulses.
New possibilities of mastication are acquired with the appearance of the canines (18 months) and second molars (24 months). The dental equipment can then chew food farms, without which they are hard. We must therefore adapt the diet, especially as regards the texture of foods. Mixing and cutting food into small pieces are very important. Fruits, vegetables, meat and fish should be mixed until the age of 2 years.
Parents: do not be hasty!
From 20 to 24 months, the child begins to be relatively autonomous. The meal becomes a highlight of the day. Small pieces mixed to succeed. They are very nice moments where the child is the pleasure of eating alone and the sharing and exchange around a table. But if the development of intelligence and motor skills go hand in hand with that of taste and tactile sensations, we must also reckon with an expression of personal commitment: it is the vagaries of age, the refusal of certain foods, even the systematic refusal to eat and parents must be prepared to know how to behave without making mistakes.
At this age, the child will have a diet that resembles more that of his parents. It is crucial that, following the example of his parents, young children learn to appreciate more and more different foods and eating a balanced way. The child learns through imitation and role of parents is fundamental here. Finally, we must remind parents that the hasty acquisition of oral cleanliness (continence saliva through the bite lip) and the coordinated use of tools of the table takes a total of 4 to 6 years and it is not reasonable to ask before.