Anushka Sharma Reveals How She Teaches Daughter Vamika Healthy Eating Habits; Psychologist Weighs In

Parents are at times faced with the difficult task of teaching children to eat the right food particularly when dealing with pickers or sugar addicts. However, Bollywood star, Anushka Sharma has discovered a style of doing things which is quite creative and light-hearted and appears to be performing miracles to her daughter, Vamika.

Anushka shared in a September 2024 interview with Slurrp Farm how she tries to bring her child to have a normal relationship with food since childhood. She told us a funny story of how she had taken Vamika to an ice cream museum which the little one loves dearly.

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"I took her to an ice cream museum because she loves ice creams, like loves, obsessed. So I took her to the ice cream museum and I'm like, you know what, eat as much as you want. And she didn't eat that much," Anushka said. The actor said that the inculcation of proper habits at a tender age assists children to self-regulate their delicacies. "So I feel like when you inculcate the right kind of habits in the beginning, they don't load themselves up with like 10 ice creams. She must have had like 2, maybe 2 and a quarter. And then she was like, 'I'm done.'"

Anushka also emphasized the fact that it is very important to make the healthy eating process entertaining and interesting to children. So I simply choose dates and write a very long explanation, which I attempt to make in a funny manner. I take out my actress' she added with a laugh proving how she is creative and patient in her parenting.

What is satiation method and how does it work?

In one of her posts in Instagram, psychologist, Saima Hameed, writes that when Anushka Sharma gave her daughter, Vamika, all the ice cream she desired, she was not promoting overindulgence. Rather she was adopting behavioural aid known as the Satiation Method.

“When a child is given freedom without guilt or shame, the desire naturally calms down. Restriction increases craving, but freedom reduces obsession. Curiosity settles when there’s no fear or secrecy, and the child learns self-regulation through experience, not punishment,” says Saima.

Saima says it is a method in which parents make the concept of not being able to go or do something disappear, as a result, children will no longer feel the need to be obsessed with what can or cannot be done. Rather than telling her daughter, No, you cannot have this, Anushka allows her daughter to freely experiment with food and she learns what happens to her body.

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Why parents should try this

Such an approach, according to Saima Hameed, will assist children in developing:

• A proper relationship with food
• Parent and child trust
• Emotional regulation
• Consciousness rather than disobedience
• Self-sufficiency and self-esteem

"Use this behavioural method purposefully, not to indulge, but to teach awareness, balance, and trust," Saima adds. Balance is not something children are taught but it is something children are trusted with. According to Saima, at times the only lesson that comes with freedom is even greater discipline than restrictions teach.

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