If you were to do a survey asking parents which meal they dreaded most, dinner would overwhelmingly be voted in at number one. By the end of the day everyone is tired, and the last thing you feel like doing is fighting over what food your precious little ones will or won’t eat!
Here are some tips for making dinners a smoother process for all involved.
5 tips to help get your child to eat dinner
Don’t ban afternoon tea (or dinner will backfire!)
For many years folklore has passed down that if we stop children from having afternoon tea they will be hungrier for their dinner meal.
False, false, false. In fact, this tactic backfires. Skip afternoon tea and the child’s stomach decodes this as ‘food shortage’ and need to go into hibernation mode for survival.
So rather than eating more for dinner, in fact they eat less. Afternoon tea served around 3pm will have well and truly… Read the rest