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Proper nutrition in childhood can reinforce lifelong eating habits that contribute to your children's overall well-being and help them to grow up to their full potential and a healthy life.
Unfortunately, some parents over-think what to do about their child's eating habits, which give way to practices like forcing kids to clean their plates. And some parents don't think about nutrition at all, letting their kids eat a lot of junk food and drink a lot of juice. So, it's important to find a balance.
In addition to contributing to the current childhood obesity epidemic, kids who don't have healthy diets as young children are likely to continue to make unhealthy choices as teens and adults.
Taking some time to understand the basics of child nutrition can help you avoid common mistakes, make healthy choices, learn about new things, like probiotics, and teach your kids healthy eating habits.
Feeding Your Baby
You would think that you would have the easiest time when you are still feeding your baby, but you do have a lot of decisions to make this first year. Of course the big one is breastfeeding vs. giving your baby formula.
There are still a lot of decisions to make later on though, including:
- when to start rice cereal
- baby food next steps, including other types of baby cereal and baby foods, such as vegetables and fruits
- feeding homemade baby food vs. store bought baby food
- when to give your baby water and juice
- starting finger foods, such as Zwieback toast, Cheerios, and veggie puffs and then table foods
- switching to whole milk
