Picky Eaters Are Made, Not Born Eating whole food is the basic building block of health. For a lifetime of health, it’s imperative you teach your child how to enjoy whole foods. If you have a picky eater, you need to change what you are doing. Your child will begin to eat whole foods, when [...]
Multi-sensory learning is vital for the picky eater. Dr. John Medina says in his book, “Brain Rules,” that multi-sensory learning is powerful. He states, “Extra information given at the moment of learning makes learning better.” This is especially important information for parents of picky eaters, who inadvertently reinforce the wrong concepts. Repetition is basic for memory. Have you ever had to [...]
Alison Gopnik wrote an August 15 op-ed piece in The New York Times titled “Your Baby is Smarter than You Think.” Gopnik explains new research which found babies and young children learn quite differently than we once thought. She says, “New studies, however, demonstrate that babies and very young children know, observe, explore, imagine and [...]
You’ll never say “don’t play with your food” again once multi-sensory learning is incorporated into your picky eater’s mealtime. Fussy eaters can’t resist loving veggies when all your child’s senses are engaged. You can change dinner conflict with your picky eater to fun, multi-sensory, memory-making mealtimes. Play is the way children learn and directed-play allows you to incorporate foods [...]
Baby Bites is a result of over 30 year’s journey with whole foods and nutrition. Multi-sensory learning for the picky eater (the Baby Bite Steps) was integrated into the equation for my grandson, Joshy about 4 years ago. Click on the following links from 2008 Baby Bite blogs to get the story: A S.A.D. Diet Baby Bites began thirty years ago. [...]
Did you know, that my grandson, Joshy, was the inspiration for my book, Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater? He regularly ate only a few foods, while refusing to eat most foods. In fact, he wouldn’t even touch foods he’d predetermined to be “yucky.” He was such a picky eater that [...]
