General Principles when feeding infants and children

When feeding infants and children, it is important to keep in mind three general principles:

1. Food should promote normal and healthy growth and should meet the nutritional needs of the infant or child. The quantity provided should not exceed what children are able to utilize and digest.

2. What is fed to the infant or child/and the manner ,in which it is fed, should promote good eating habits.

3. Infants and young children need to be loved and to feel secure. Feeding should be a time of happiness and pleasure, a time to promote love and security; it is not a time for speed, efficiency or neatness.

Food should be enjoyed.