Trust your child’s sense of fullness
Forcing children to eat can also be motivated by parents’ concern that they are not eating enough. This concern is often misplaced,» says Kolonen. A child’s sense of fullness varies from day to day, so the amount of food they eat varies from day to day. The main thing is that there is always a variety of food on the plate.
«Even a small child can be asked when he or she has eaten enough. Older children already know how to eat the right amount of food. Sometimes a child can be impatient and not eat enough. Then the adult has to guess a bit what the right amount is. A child will know how to skip food if there is too much on the plate,» says Kolonen.
