WHEN THE CHILD ISN'T HUNGRY
DONT FUSS AND COAX Most children are born in tip-top working order, with an appetite neatly adjusted to supply them with enough food for optimum growth. The dawTdling over food which is common to children between 15 months and three years won't be cured by fussing and rus'hing and coaxing. He'll take all the food he needs without any bother, states a cautionaiy article in "Health*' quarterly, issued by the New ZealaVid Health Department. If you consider your child unique and abnormal, go ahead and try forcing food into him. But if he's normai you can get out of all this trouble by showing absolutely no evidence of anxiety about his food. His meals, made to look attractive, in appropriate 'variety and not in excessive quantity, should be set before the child with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude. If he does eat it — and he will if he's hungry — no undue praise must be given. If he leaves it the meal must be taken away from him without a word. A persuasioii, coaxing, bribing and discussion about appetite must cease.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 June 1952, Page 3
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183WHEN THE CHILD ISN'T HUNGRY Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 June 1952, Page 3
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