Open iteles opened 2 years ago
Interesting! Generally, giving kids choices helps them feel like they have some power and control over what they do. I found some interesting articles like Early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food but unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any research articles directly related to this topic. Most of the Google results are about picky eaters. For instance, I bumped into short (aka useless) articles like Should I Let My Child Choose What Food to Eat? and learned that parents resort to letting their child choose what to eat to prevent them from becoming a picky eater, but letting a child freely decide what to eat might mean that he will stick to his favourite foods and be less likely to venture out to try new things. I understand you would only give Alex a choice between two foods and I did find news articles like Is Your Approach to Feeding Your Kids All Wrong? encouraging the idea of giving choices, but they don't go into details: Give kids real choices. Let your child have a say in what she eats by offering her a choice. Giving younger children two choices and older kids three options works well. You might ask, for instance, “Would you like an apple with peanut butter or crackers with peanut butter?”
Thanks @Stephanymtr!
Yes, I was very much thinking only a choice between two things in a meal.
For example, muffins or rice as the carb in this meal and then the adult builds the meal around that. For the next it could be fish or legumes and then the adult builds the rest of the meal as needed to make sure that the day's offerings are balanced #1
But at this age, I was considering that the only real way to do that would be with flash cards if you don't want to be actually preparing the full meals (which I don't really) or pulling food in and out of the freezer to show them (which might be unrecognisable).
In the short term we should make sure we're always offering Alex a choice of snacks (pancakes A or pancakes B with your fruit? Blueberries or orange with your puffs?) and using the same turn of phrase both in English and in Portuguese to ask the question so that he recognises it.
If we leave it too long we'll be skipping the flash cards altogether though 😅
Understood! I 100% agree flashcard time is now. He's been very chatty lately, and once he starts talking there will be no need for them haha Would you like the flashcards to be the same size/type as the ones we already have?
That's what I was thinking but I'm not sure about the priority on this. Let me know if you have any thoughts on the priority of this @nelsonic 😊
@iteles good question.
I agree that having these cards would be good for *`A**, but right now it's a [**
priority-4`**](https://github.com/dwyl/labels#labels); non-essential enhancement.
if we frame this task as "content creation" by publishing it to a Website where we are are getting SEO,
then it becomes a priority-3
. And if there's a clear business plan for how the Website will either make revenue directly or drive revenue indirectly, then it could even be a priority-2
.
A comparatively minor improvement to *`A`**'s meal experience is a lower priority than other tasks in the backlog: https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+assignee%3AStephanymtr
Yea, agreed, the research was the higher priority portion of this for me because it reinforces the idea that choice from early on is positive, but we can do this in other ways for now.
Don't mean to "pour cold water" on this. It's a great idea. We just cannot work on everything. That's why we need a "Queue" of ideas ... an ideaQ if you will ... 💡
Would it be interesting to allow the child a choice between two foods for one of his meals a day?
I'm thinking this could be a set of cards for each of:
First, it might be worth 1 pomodoro of research into giving babies choice in their food (if there's anything out there) - costs and benefits and whether there are specific anecdotal suggestions on how to do it at a young age (hello mommy blogs).