Research On The Status Quo Of Children's Eating Behavior

The early childhood is a critical period for creating and developing good habits.Learning And Development Guide of 3-6 year-old children pointed that the health is an important way to promote children's growing.Dietary education activities are the place to achieve the goal that promoting the learning and growing.Children between three and four years old are in an important turning point.Their body and mind are in the lowest stage of development.To some degree,this might be the best time to educate and shape them.Children between 3-4 years old are more easily to form good habits than children from junior and senior level.So it will have a great significance to help small children correct and form good dietary behavior.The study selected a kindergarten of Dalian,filmed these children in the bottom class and observed and analyzed these children's dietary behavior by using observation and interviews.I made a very detailed description for these kids and how they reacted while they were eating.Through the research of the Dalian's kindergarten,I found the following issues: children in the bottom class eat passively,they are very easy to get distracted while they were eating,the eating schedule for kids is not logical,they like to eat lots of meat,and small kids tend to eat more snacks.Based on these issues,I found out the cause of their bad eating habits by analyzing these small kids,their family and school.I also proposed some educational strategies about how to improve small kids' eating habits: Firstly,parents are supposed to have a better understanding about how to teach their kids and help them keep good eating habits.Secondly,we can improve children's eating habits by psychological characteristics.Thirdly,mealtime segment we should provide a better environment for children in the bottom class;Fourthly,we can improve small children's eating habits by take advantages of their characteristics;Lastly,snacking behavior should be guided correctly.