Kids Gluten Free Tips
These tips are aimed at kids and helping them to have a normal but gluten free life.
Include older siblings. If you have a child who needs to eat gluten free consider this a challenge for the whole family rather than just that child. If they have an older sibling give them some responsibility and make them feel far more included in helping their younger brother or sister to stay gluten free. Whilst your child with coeliac condition may not yet be able to read or interpret the ingredients in a food labels you will find that their older brother or sister probably can with some help, and is able to do this. Remember, you will not always be with your child when they are out but there is a greater chance that their sibling will be with them and can help them to stay gluten free if offered some food at a friend’s or at a party.
Educate your child’s class. Coeliac condition and the need to be gluten free is not a stigma, they are a medical condition and compromised by lack of education. Offer to go to your child’s class and do a quick presentation on what coeliac condition is and what foods are gluten free. This will help your child’s classmates to understand better and help your child when at school. Remember, the class teacher may also be very vague as to what foods contain gluten and why there is a need to be gluten free and they will benefit from this presentation also. Don’t be afraid of tackling this head on, there will be many other children in the class with food intollerances some of which are far worse such as peanut allergy.
Reward your child for spotting gluten in foods. If your child is offered a sweet by an adult at a child’s party or an outing the last thing you want is for them to be put in a position of refusing the gift and not been able to adequately explain why. It is much better if you train them to accept the sweet and then immediately take it to you or save it to refer to you later so that you can then exchange it for a better, favourite sweet or better still two sweets. In this way they are not disadvantaged, avoid any embarrassing situations and are actually rewarded for being diligent with regard to any streets they are offered.
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