Articles tagged with: picky eater
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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