Children’s appetites are affected by growth cycles, and they have different taste preferences (or palates) to adults. Even babies have fluctuating appetites. You will encourage your baby's appetite to work properly if you give her more when she’s hungry and let her eat less when she’s not interested. Many children are fussy eaters.

• Erratic appetites are common between one and five years.
• Sometimes life for children is too exciting to spend time eating.
• Most children get plenty to eat even if it seems like they are barely eating at all.

Growth slows down and appetites become erratic between one and five years. Sometimes your child will refuse food just because it provokes an interesting reaction – from you! Just try again another day. If you keep offering a particular food, your child is more likely to try it and eventually like it.

While you provide the food, your child is in charge when it comes to what and how much she eats. Toddlers have a strong need for rituals and for what's familiar. If your child asks for the pasta without the sauce, this might just be a way of getting simple, easily identifiable foods that boost her sense of security. It might also be a sign that your toddler is seeking greater independence. There's nothing wrong with supporting this move for independence by granting simple wishes such as removal of crusts from bread. The key is to let your toddler make choices while still providing a healthy, varied range of foods.

If your toddler is too distracted to sit at the family table for a meal, you can try having quiet time first to allow her to calm down before eating. Even the ritual of hand-washing can help achieve this. In general, if your kids see you enjoying food, it will encourage them to do likewise. You might encourage your toddler to sit at the table with the family for most meals, but only for 15 minutes or so until she is older and able to sit still for longer.

Your child's appetite varies. She won't starve if she is eating hardly anything. But if this really worries you, the following tips can kick-start some changes:

• Make healthy foods fun by cutting sandwiches into interesting shapes or by letting her help prepare the salad or whisk the eggs for an omelette.

• If you offer fatty, sugary or salty snacks in order to get her to ‘eat something’, she’ll start refusing healthier foods – she knows there are tastier options! Offering unhealthy treats as bribes might make her more interested in the treat than the healthy food you want her to eat.

• Serve your toddler the same meal the family is eating and if she doesn’t eat it, say something like ‘Try it, it's yummy’. If she still doesn't want it, say ‘OK, another time when you're hungry’.

• Make meal times a happy social occasion. Try not to worry about knocked-over drinks or food on the floor. Give positive feedback on the habits you want continued, rather than focusing on the negatives.

• Dont give hard candy to our child unsupervise though he can bite and chew
• Revise on my First Aid Skill especially now that i have my own family..Anything can happen(Nauzubillah)

• Put the baby facedown on your forearm so the baby’s head is lower than his or her chest.
  
• Support the baby’s head in your palm, against your thigh. Don’t cover the baby’s mouth or twist his or her neck.
  
• Use the heel of one hand to give up to 5 back slaps between the baby’s shoulder blades. See Illustration C.
  
• If the object does not pop out, support the baby’s head and turn him or her faceup on your thigh. Keep the baby’s head lower than his or her body.
  
• Place 2 or 3 fingers just below the nipple line on the baby’s breastbone and give 5 quick chest thrusts (same position as chest compressions in CPR for a baby). See Illustration D.
  
• Look for an object in the baby’s mouth. If you can see one, remove it. Then give 2 rescue breaths. To give rescue breaths:
  
  • Place one hand on the baby’s forehead, and tilt the baby’s chin up to keep the airway open.
    
  • Then place your mouth over the baby’s mouth and nose and slowly blow air in until the baby’s chest rises.
    
  • Between breaths, remove your mouth, take a breath, and watch for the baby’s chest to fall.
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• If the object does not come out with these steps, call 911 or other emergency services.
  
• Continue with back slaps, chest thrusts, looking for the object, and rescue breaths until the baby coughs up the object and starts breathing on his or her own, or until helps arrives.

Here are some info on Heimlich maneuver..Grabbed from this link

Performing first aid for a choking child is very similar to an adult. If the child does not clearly grab their throat other danger signs for a child and an adult include:

• Inability to speak
• Weak, ineffective coughing
• Noisy breathing or high-pitched sounds while inhaling
• Difficulty breathing
• Bluish skin color
• Loss of consciousness if blockage is not cleared

1. Stand behind the child and wrap your arms around the child’s waist.

2. Make a fist with one hand. Place the thumb side of your fist just above the child’s navel, well below the breastbone.

3. Grasp the fist with your hand.

4. Make quick, upward and inward thrusts with your fists.

5. Continue thrusts until the object is dislodged or the child loses consciousness.

If the child becomes unconscious, lower child to the floor, call 911, and begin CPR. If you see the object blocking the airway, try to remove it.