Show 03 oyo V 4 0 07 I 1 too much food not good for children 11 i 0 07 y 0 prepared by the united states department 0 f agriculture give small amounts of food at a time when serving little children advises tile the specialist in child nutrition of the bureau ot of home economics united states department of agriculture even when they have learned to like a number of foods children are bewildered by too much variety at the very young child is a one at a timer and gela get along salong best when allowed to clear his plate of 0 one or two foods before anything else is given film always serve children cli ildren small email enough portions so that they can finish the whole amount parents sometimes overestimate the c capacity ot of the hie young child and serve him film so BO much that eliat he is il too disc discouraged ourn ged to begin to eat or that lie be cannot even though lie mals makes es a good start starl it if a child Is i hungry second helpings hellings hel pings may be given elven the little girl in the picture is seated comfortably at her own on little table where her aneals have bae been riven given from tile time that she could first handle a spoon or tork fork tile the joy ot of accomplishment became all absorb ing when she first learned to pour her milk without spilling out of her own little pitcher into her tumbler which was carefully chosen to tit it her tiny grasp the meals meala ire are aenied on an oilcloth dolly of if guy gay pattern the floor 1 I washable and slie site wears a large bit bib so chrit ali it it if site spills a little food lit in the lie process of learning self help it ft M y eak V comfortably seated at jerown her own table tabe really mitter matter this childs mother ollier lu lias has made a special point ot of serving the childs cooil so it will mill be lit attractive anti anil the hie little girl has lier her own dillies mid lind utensils ils tills this helps the mollier to say abo this food Is for you children do not liae tile the same kind of food always that grownups grown ups do in tills this way the problem of a childs teasing for foods that it should not have may often be successfully avoided I 1 |