We all know that babies drink milk from a bottle when they are very young. After they grow up a little, they are fed by their parents. It is just that when the baby grows up a lot, it is necessary to teach them to use chopsticks or spoons to eat by themselves. , and they will also be very happy to eat with chopsticks by themselves. It is actually good to train babies to use chopsticks earlier, so how to teach young children to use chopsticks? How to teach children how to use chopsticks? Here we take a look.
The formula for teaching young children to use chopsticks is: before holding the chopsticks, the tips of the chopsticks should be aligned; the chopsticks should be held gently with the thumb, index finger, and middle finger; the thumb should be placed next to the nail of the index finger; a distance of 1 cm should be left behind the chopsticks; The nail pad is under the chopsticks; the middle of the thumb and index finger is clamped and fixed; make it move up and down, left and right to clamp the food. This is the formula for younger friends to use chopsticks. Parents should lead by example and guide their babies to use chopsticks patiently.
Training babies to use chopsticks can actually help their finger coordination ability, and help the development of the baby's body motor intelligence. When the baby expresses interest in holding chopsticks, parents should teach them how to use chopsticks while the iron is hot. You don’t have to worry when you are using it, let your baby get acquainted with this tool first, and then teach it slowly. In order to let parents know more about how to teach their babies to use chopsticks, here is a video of how children use chopsticks.
How to teach your baby to use chopsticks is actually a science and a relatively difficult thing, but it is always necessary for the baby to learn from an early age, and it must be learned correctly, otherwise the baby will learn it by himself or grow up , there is a difference between the posture of holding chopsticks and the correct posture of holding chopsticks, so how to use chopsticks for babies? How to train children with chopsticks? Let's find out together.
The chopsticks used by the baby should choose a kind of chopsticks specially for children, which are shorter than our normal chopsticks, so that the baby can use them more easily, and choose square bamboo chopsticks, which will be easy to learn. Parents should do a good job of demonstration first. First, pinch one with your thumb, index finger, and middle finger, and press the other with your tiger's mouth and ring finger. The pinched one can move, so that you can hold the food. The baby may not understand it at first. I always want to hold the chopsticks according to my own ideas. Parents should not worry, and help their children correct it slowly.
Always remind the baby to align the chopsticks when using the chopsticks, and put the chopsticks on the table to align them before they can pick up food, otherwise they will not be able to pick up. After learning to hold chopsticks, it is necessary for the baby to practice holding chopsticks. At the beginning, the baby can pick up some lighter food. Later, parents can also use some competitions to strengthen the baby's ability to use chopsticks .
Many children will feel very curious when they see their parents using chopsticks to pick up vegetables, and they will be eager to try it. At the beginning, they can't pick up the chopsticks, and the way to hold the chopsticks is also wrong, so in children When children show interest in chopsticks, parents should teach their children how to use chopsticks, the earlier the better. So what are the correct video tutorials and step-by-step pictures for children to use chopsticks? How do children use chopsticks? Let's take a look together.
Teaching children how to use chopsticks is actually not a simple matter. Many times they will always hold the chopsticks according to their own ideas, thinking that they can hold them. Therefore, parents need to work hard on this aspect. Parents are advised to When teaching your baby to use chopsticks, you should buy special chopsticks for children, so that it is not easy to hurt the child. Below are pictures of the steps for children to use chopsticks and a video tutorial, so that everyone can better understand how to teach children to use chopsticks .
1. Let the children imitate the parents, stretch out the right hand, the ring finger and little finger are bent, and the other three fingers are naturally separated.
2. Hold the chopsticks with your thumb, index finger and middle finger.
3. Maintain the state of holding the chopsticks so that the head of the chopsticks can move up and down.
4. Hold another chopstick in your hand and hold it with your ring finger.
5. Move the chopsticks above to let the chopsticks move up and down.
Chopsticks are a characteristic food culture of the Chinese nation. Many foreigners want to learn how to use chopsticks, so babies must learn to use chopsticks to eat by themselves when they reach a certain age, so teaching babies to use chopsticks should start from an early age. Next, I will briefly describe how to guide infants and young children to use chopsticks correctly, and how to teach babies to eat with chopsticks.
Before parents teach their babies to hold chopsticks, it is best to prepare a pair of chopsticks for children. There are tableware specially sold on the Internet to help babies supplement food. Try to choose light and short chopsticks with cartoon patterns, so that the baby will be relatively easy to operate. At the beginning, parents have to demonstrate it to the children first, and then let the children operate it by themselves. First let the baby hold the front side of the chopsticks, align the two chopsticks, and then let the baby's thumb, index finger and middle finger gently hold the chopsticks, about one centimeter away from the end of the chopsticks, the thumb should be placed Next to the nail of the index finger and the nail of the ring finger needs to be placed under the chopsticks. Then swing the upper side of the chopsticks, and keep the lower side still. After getting familiar with it a few times, you can properly let the children go from simple to difficult, and do some small games of picking things with chopsticks, such as picking popcorn, soybeans, etc., and let the children pick them from one bowl to another.
Supervise the child's training for more than half an hour each time. At the beginning, the baby will definitely resist, and gradually it will not last for 10 minutes later, so parents must be patient and encourage and praise the child more.