MEAL-TIME MISTAKES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)

MEAL-TIME MISTAKES.

" A child's food habits are framed before he is four, and a good knowledge of feedinir matters is as important to his Kiibaeittienr. health and strength as a good knowledge of geography is to his intelligence." This is the advice offered to mothers bv a well-known nutrition expert. ' '• Anybody can learn to like any food, and "ill -"iifidren should start in infancy to eat .whatever is placed before them. Thi? feeding oi every child is, of course, an individual puibleni to be settled by . tiie mother. '• Conx *i child to eat anything yon farfcv he may not like, and it is probable he will refuse or once. Many a child would have no <>ii:e' 'en to a soft-boiled f.-g if, in the lirst. place, it were not offered to him with the admonition, ' f line along now and eat your nice soL egg)—trv and like the taste.' " Between the ages of 13 months and four rears, when a child is learning to take other things besides milk, he should be left entirely alone at meni-times. Place his Mod in front of him and keep quiet. Don't coax, and don't persuade. Leave it to him. . If he doesn't eat it. take the plate away after a reasonable lapse of lime. He will eat when he is really h injury. " Proper feeding is now a part of the schedule of every good school. Nobody is born with a natural dislike of any food—it is merely a matter of whims, otherwise lew people would eat oysters, giives or anchovv paste."- / "