Baby Bdks; I
Reason Why
Not the Food, but Its Consistency Often the Reason
for Revolt.
By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.
Not the food itself, but its consistency, is quite often the reason
for a child's refusal of it. A mother
attempts to feed a new cereal, rice,
!let us say, instead of the smooth,
sieved cereal to which the baby's
tongue has been attuned since the
early days of cereal.
The baby feels this rough, uneven textured food in the spoon
and out it comes as quickly as it
went in.
Fails to Try.
Sometimes he will deign to try a,
spoonful, but as he rolls it around
experimentally, he finds that he is
fearful of it. What is this new,
thing? And without trying to like|
it, he lets it slip out of his mouth.
If forced to eat it he becomes
vehemently set against it and then
his mother wants to know, "Why
does he dislike rice—and how can
I get him to like it?"
The fact is baby doesn't dislike it,1
he is suspicious of the different tex-,
ture. Stop the rice for a few days
and let baby forget that he ever
felt any opposition to it. It, too, can
be pushed through a sieve and
