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 | Savory Foods First
My "savory-foods-first" rule ensures that a baby will like more than sweet foods; she’ll like a variety of foods, and her diet will be well balanced. - Excerpt from Nanny Wisdom - Chapter Two, Babies - the First Year of Life - Start As you Mean to Go on. Posted by Justine Walsh on July 22, 2005. Send to a friend. |  |
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After weaning dozens of babies, I discovered that they often prefer sweet fruit purees to vegetable purees. This seems especially true for breast-fed babies, because breast milk is naturally sweet. When I was a novice nanny weaning a baby girl for the first time, I offered her mostly fresh fruit purees, as that was what she obviously preferred. I soon realized she wasn’t eating a wide variety of foods and I wished that I had introduced her to foods with a sharper taste first. Since then, all the babies I have weaned have begun their diets with foods like green beans, broccoli, zucchini, turnips, and potatoes. I only add the sweeter vegetables like squash and carrots and then the fruit purees to the diet once the baby has accepted the savory foods and developed a taste for them.
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| | The Nannies’ Terrific Timer
I would set the timer for ten minutes, place it near where Scott was playing, and tell him that when the bell rang, it would be time to finish playing and come to the table for dinner. Scott was clearly intrigued; even on that first night, I could sense him listening for the timer to go off. After a few days with the timer, Scott no longer refused to come to the table. Instead, he would jump up when it went off, because he understood clearly that the buzzer meant it was time to come to the table for dinner. - Excerpt from Nanny Wisdom - Chapter Five, Secrets from the Nannies Kitchen – Giving Your Children a Healthy, Balanced Diet. Posted by Justine Walsh on June 26, 2005. Send to a friend. | |
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Two-year-old Scott would become so wrapped up playing with his Thomas the Tank Engine that he wouldn’t want to come to the table for dinner. Even when I gave him ten minutes’ notice, there were still cries of protest. I knew that the only solution to this nightly struggle was my Terrific Timer—which was nothing more than a simple kitchen timer for helping kids having a hard time adjusting to everyday transitions. Here’s how it worked with Scott:
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| | Over-Scheduling
Children need downtime just as much as they need stimulation and exercise, and if you find your child’s activities are pushing back nap times and bedtimes on a regular basis, it may be time to cut back his busy schedule. Start by dropping one or two activities and pay attention to the positive changes in his mood, appetite, and energy. Drop some more activities if necessary—until he is no longer melting down, refusing to eat, or asking to stay home instead of doing an activity. - Excerpt from Nanny Wisdom - Chapter Three, The Scheduled Routine - Child Care Made Easy. Posted by Justine Walsh on June 26, 2005. Send to a friend. | |
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If your child has frequent meltdowns by the time Thursday morning rolls around, is too tired to eat well at most mealtimes, or is uninterested in attending his activities and frequently asks if he can stay home and play, it may be that he is over-scheduled.
