>>> parents have done it, you bribe your kids to clean their plates at dinnertime or entice them with sweets to eat their vegetables. joy bauer is here with the parenting mistakes that could be packing on the pounds. joy, good morning.
>> hi, ann.
>> happy post thanksgiving.
>> thank you.
>> we're all on tryptophan this morning.
>> trying to wake.
>> encouraging kids to clean their plates.
>> kids are born with this amazing internal mechanism, they eat when they're hungry and they stop when they're full and as parents when we encourage them to clean their plates, we're really messing with that mechanism and we're teaching them to overeat so our job as parents is to provide small to moderate portions of healthy food, but ann, their job as the kid is to decide what quantity they're going to eat.
>> don't keep nagging them.
>> no.
>> when you say small to moderate portions, what is this is that? different parts of the country have a different definition.
>> for toddlers and preschoolers, about a quarter to half the portion that you would feed yourself and then use your personal judgment.
>> mistake number two, offering sweet rewards. what if they won't eat their spinach otherwise, joy?
>> you don't want to dangle the pot of gold at the end, the dessert for the broccoli. you're reinforcing that the broccoli is so unappealing that it requires a prize.
>> i don't think they have to be told that it's you an peeling. i think they pretty much know.
>> they figure it out on their own especially when we try to use that dessert leverage so instead keep it positive. tell them vegetables make them smarter and stronger and help them to grow but whether they eat the vegetables or not and i can't believe i'm going to say this, i would still give them the dessert. it's still okay.
>> yes?
>> never give up on vegetables.
>> talk about popeye, and why i eat spinach still today. mistake number three, serving too many starchy snacks. this is a no brainer. for example what?
>> we give kids so many snacks and that translates to calorie overload and also disinterest in real food when lunch and dinner rolls around. so you want to be strategic about snacks. no more than two or three a day, if you can, keep them about 150 calories or less, and you want to make sure that you don't give your child a snack within two hours of a meal, because we want to get them hungry.
>> so you're saying carrot sticks instead of potato chips ? what would appease them, nevertheless?
>> well, most of the time we give them starchy snacks like the crackers and the pretzels, all starch, no protein and new research shows now that the starch makes them sluggish, tired, but if there's protein incorporated like yogurt, a string cheese , hummus, peanut butter . it wakes up their brain cells.
>> letting kids pick the menu.
>> it depends. what are they going to pick, macaroni and cheese , pizza, burgers and fries. as a parent you have to take control. if you can make slimmed down versions of their requests, that's a home run, but you also want to mingle in some adult things like shrimp and broccoli stir-fry, there's the blockly again because we want to expand their taste buds.
>> if they refuse to eat it?
>> you have one fallback meal, keep it the same night after night and make sure it does not require the oven or a stove, a peanut butter sandwich , a bowl of cereal. the idea here is to give your kids some sort of power to give the option that's not exhaustive to us. we don't want to feel like a short order cook. if it's limiting and boring hopefully they'll venture out and try some exciting things.
>> allowing too much screen time is a mistake, a lot of sitting around and letting kids stay up late. what is the evidence for that staying up late leads to obese isn't it.
>> just like with adults, it messes with your hormone balance. it increases the hormones that make us hungry, and it decreases the hormones that make us full so kids that are sleep deprived truly will be hungry throughout the whole day and tend to nibble and graze and munch. so know how many hours your kids need and make sure that you stick to it.
>> and you also say that letting our kids when they're very young stay in strollers is not such a great idea. teaches them to be --
>> sedentary, sedentary thrown so to speak. as soon as your kids are old enough to work, 10 months, 12 months, ten-minute rule, ten minutes in the stroller, ten minutes out of the stroller. it's a little bit more exhausting for the parents and you're not going to cover as much ground but it's a great thing to start with them in terms of increasing activity at an early age.
>> i know from personal experience you lose weight chasing them around.
>> you're right.
>> thank you so much.
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