6 Strategies to help parents get kids to eat at meal times.
Jun 06, 2017
These strategies will be familiar to teachers, who instead of interesting children in a meal, have to engage them for hours in learning activities. Teachers learn quickly that being stressed themsleves is very counterproductive!
the mealtime strategies are:
1. Get them involved
2. Make sure they come to the table hungry ( or in the case of the classroom - not hungry)
3. Eliminate distractions, like screens
4. Let them decide how much they should eat
5. Serve one meal for the whole family ( for teaching this would be one theme, different approaches)
6. Stay calm
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