Toddler Grazing: Normal Eating Habits Explained
Dr. Chheda – At around 18 months of age, kids become grazers. They take a bite, run off and play, take a bite, run off and play. I tell my parents, for the next two…
Dr. Chheda – At around 18 months of age, kids become grazers. They take a bite, run off and play, take a bite, run off and play. I tell my parents, for the next two years, between 18 months to three and a half, don’t even think about taking your toddler to a restaurant because they’re not gonna sit down. They’re going to be running all over the place. But if you think about how children naturally eat and how they grow up, we used to live in extended families. And what would happen is that the toddler would come up to the mom, take a bite, run off and go up to grandma, take a bite, go off to uncle, take a bite. So this is natural for toddlers to do this, to take a bite and run off and take a bite and run off. So grazing during the toddler period is very normal. Just make sure they’re eating lots of nutritious things when they are grazing. Transcriptions from AI and may not be 100% accurate