So if you want your child to eat well, dispel the myth that it’s bad to play with your food and start having some fun. These vegetables have been in the garden, they've had many days of sun, rain and fun, now they have ended up on your plate, aren’t you lucky!Ĭhildren need to be stimulated, particularly when something becomes routine.If you eat the smiling face, you’ll be smiling all day long and will be able to play your games better.Let’s be part of the Clean Plate Club! (Serve up smaller portions as you can always dish up more later).
She loved animals so we concentrated a lot on names, textures, sounds animals make, and going to onsite locations like the farm and the zoo.Making sure a child is eating healthily is both a priority and a challenge for care givers, and fussy eating can be stressful to deal with. I also tried to use what she enjoyed to reward and encourage verbalizing. Seuss in particular but lots and lots of other books, using accents and intonations to make it really fun, and looking her in the eyes when I was soliciting information or giving direction. After a couple of expensive and unproductive speech therapy sessions, I developed my own action plan that involved narrating aloud nearly everything I was doing, singing a lot, joining a mother and baby Kindermusik group, reading Dr. She was assessed as mild to moderate speech impaired at 9 months. They didn't think she had it because she did respond nonverbally to social cues. I then took her to The Cleveland Clinic to have her evaluated for autism. She seemed to retreat into herself, and I had her hearing tested. There was actually no waving either, and the eye contact was not there. There was never any babbling or bye bye, mama, dada. I'm a psychologist and when my daughter (who is now 17) was only 9 months of age she lost the few words she had attempted. I need help, I want to help him but I don't know how.ThanksįlourishAnyway from USA on July 11, 2017: Can anyone suggest some tips.We are only now really starting to get more into reading (over the last couple of months) due to the fact that before that he would just rip the pages. But it also frustrates me and I am a very emotional person and am worried that me upset = crying will discourage him. I feel as if his tantrums are related possibly to his frustration due to not being able to communicate with his parents. He points quite a bit, however, for the most part I don't know what he is trying to communicate, although he is really good at taking my hand and leading me to where he wants or needs to go. I don't know if my son is moody, but he is definitely hard to control at times and throws tantrums for no reason at home and in public, and so far at both of his group therapy (speech) sessions. I enrolled him in speech therapy at the hospital but have only had two sessions so far. Like nothing, I thought I heard him say ball a few times yesterday, and he sounds like he might be saying kitty when he sees the family cat. Hi there my son will be 25 months on Sunday. Have you talked to your pediatrician about a referral for a speech evaluation? Megan Machucho (author) from Milwaukee, WI on August 18, 2018: She goes to school since 3 and was getting a speech therapy there also in private but we are not seeing the change we want. My daughter she 5 and remembers all of the kiss songs but she had a hard time communicating with us.