MUMMY, I’M HUNGRY!

I recently had a conversation with a mum who was feeling a little stressed with her little one. She had noted that her son had started to wake and be so ravenously hungry, he did not want to wait for her to prepare breakfast, but instead wanted to have a bowl of cereal and then the family breakfast afterwards.

Why is that a Problem?

Well after having two breakfasts, mum had noticed her son was barely hungry when it came to lunch time. This is not a good thing if you have prepared a nutrient rich lunch. To cut a long story short, her son was then starving in between meals and had begun to enter an unhealthy cycle which was also interfering with sleep patterns. Both parents and their son were understandably grumpy!

Breaking the Pattern

I advised mum that instead of giving her son that first bowl of cereal, offer him fruit instead. If fruit is declined then he can’t be that hungry. The sugar in fruit is natural so more balanced. With cereals however, they are full of refined carbs that will fill him up in this case so much so that it knocks his whole routine out.

The first few days of this new ritual were a challenge as always when making a change. Both parents stuck with it however, which resulted in one more happy family.

It’s all about encouraging our children to make healthy lifestyle choices so that they can be the best version of themselves: Sometimes this can be really hard, but perseverance really pays off.

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