Developmental Milestones

How you can help your child’s development:

• Involve your child in shopping for groceries and preparing meals. A 3-year-old can help add ingredients, stir, and put pre-cut apples or carrots slices on plates.
• Let children take a dip. Children like to play with their food. Healthy dips, such as low-fat salad dressing, salsa, yogurt or hummus make eating fun. Children can dip vegetables, fruits, and even meat!
• Close supervision is necessary whenever your child is eating.
• Encourage your child to sit or many prefer to stand while eating. Model chewing for your child to prevent choking. Tell your child, “Good job clearing that food, let’s chew more…” when he/she does clear a food using their gag reflex.