Articles tagged with: picky eater
Moms across the nation last year shared with ZisBoomBah readers tips ranging from how to make hiking fun for kids to how to pack a healthy picnic. But even moms who, along with their families, stay active and eat healthy can find some way to improve their lives and set new goals. For instance, my family eats its fair share of fruits and vegetables with each meal. However, the drinks in…
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When a child eats to “feed” a feeling (sadness, happiness, worry, frustration, boredom, etc.) instead of to relieve hunger, they are in the midst of “emotional eating.” It is natural for eating and emotions to become connected to a certain degree, but if emotions prompt a child to make poor food choices, or eat too much or too little, long-lasting problems can ensue.
Teach kids how to talk about feeling…
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Most people outgrow picky eating behavior. But some don’t. If you are one of those adults who still harbor aversions to many foods and feel most comfortable with eating only a limited variety of foods, you might be interested in strategies for not passing on your own issues to your children. To be clear, we are not talking about eating disorders here, but merely about parents’ food-related quirks that might…
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If you read a lot online about kids and eating, you know that nearly every parenting website and mommy food blogger is talking about picky eating. We are too. Strategies to get reluctant kids to eat a variety of foods—plenty of vegetables in particular —is a very popular parenting topic among parents and experts these days. It’s more than understandable if your automatically think, ”yep, I’ve a picky eater too”…
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These are the kind of tips and tricks us parents simply can’t know enough of – because what works well with one kid might not be successful with another. So we asked ZisBoomBah’s house nutritionist Lisa Lanzano, MS, RD to tell us her top 10 professional ways to manipulate your children into being better eaters:
- Get kids involved in the planning and cooking. Let them help you shop by
You want your child to eat better, but it’s tough. No matter what you do, things seem to stay the same. Sometimes, things even get worse.
Changing someone’s eating habits is no easy task. (If it were, we’d all be stellar eaters.) And it takes more than information to move things along. Everyone knows the information about ice cream — it is sugar-laden and…
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In short, the answer is, “no.”
For one thing, unless you resort to really drastic measures — such as pinching your kids’s nose closed and them shoveling in some food when he starts gasping for air (a tactic I’ve considered but which I don’t recommend) — there aren’t any reliable techniques for making a kid eat something.
For sure, parents have lots of subtle — “Ummm, I love this…
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I was walking through the grocery store the other day and I realized that some veggies and fruit have really cool names. Dinosaur kale seemed like a vegetable kids would surely want to gobble up, right? And who wouldn’t be curious what UFO peaches must taste like. I wondered if catchy veggie names can win kids over or if a veggie is a veggie is a veggie to a picky…
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Every week, I go into a local elementary school and help students learn to read. The kids love it. They love a good story with good characters. I have read with kids who just want to read the same story over and over again because they love a book THAT much. We all know children can be very influenced by what they see and what they read, so how about…
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