Kids first.
TV distraction, cartoon or the social media feed disrupts the mechanism of digestion of food. Poorly chewed food — insufficient absorption of nutrients. The child's brain is busy processing information, not the focus of the plate.
The author of the Spoon healthy lifestyle and food blog writes about this! Anastasia Goloborodko, reports the Chronicle.info.
Controlling the saturation process
So, the first reason not to be distracted by gadgets at the table is to control the saturation process. This does not happen while reading or watching a movie.
Lack of conscious choice
Eating «on the go», «for the company», «on the machine» These are all ineffective eating patterns. Draw the children's attention to all food groups, voice them: what bright and crunchy vegetables, juicy meat, warm and soft scrambled eggs!
Skipping the moment of satiety
With the added factor of a tablet or phone, it's easy to eat more.
Lack of flavor saturation⠀Rapid swallowing and poor chewing prevent satiation of the taste buds. For those who eat quickly, the principle will work: find someone at the table who eats slower than you and try to eat at his pace without overtaking.
Communication
Communication with the family is a more reliable factor for personality formation than addiction from your tablet, phone and TV.
Self-reliance
Eating well together can develop independence and responsibility in a child when the choice of foods on the table is varied and balanced. Minus semi-finished products plus real food and rotation by availability and season. While we are preparing and laying food, we feel the aroma, we see a multi-colored picture, the rear is being prepared.
Important, useful digestive enzymes are produced, appetite increases. If the child does not participate in this, but receives a plate while sitting with a gadget, the food ends up in an unprepared stomach, which can lead to problems with the gastrointestinal tract.
Pleasure
Food should be a pleasure. Teach children about pleasure, help to understand tastes, ingredients and sensations (spicy, salty, sweet, sour, spicy, enveloping, soft, crunchy). Taste buds quickly get used to it, so do not accustom to artificial food: no one is born with chips and sugar behind the cheek.
In the case of gadgets, a 2-way connection is developed: in order to stretch the viewing of content, the child is not only larger, but also much eat longer. And vice versa — even if the gadget is not turned on while eating, the child automatically asks for something to eat.