Take The Baby Bites Quiz Find out how proficient you are at promoting picky eating in your prodigy. If your offspring is eating primarily fast foods, white flour, sugar, and only a few whole foods, you’re headed in the right direction for raising a picky eater. Picky eaters universally love these foods while refusing to [...]
Picky eating is a prevailing concern for parents and rightly so. We have more picky eaters than every before. Depending on the study, between 20 and 66 percent of parents say they have a “problem eater.” A mom with a picky eater asks for advice. She’s concerned about her toddler, who was born prematurely and [...]
Children are experts at parent manipulation. If you have a picky eater, you know firsthand how frustrating it can be to get her to eat one tidbit of nutritious food. Picky eaters have built a wall of resistance to avoid eating nutritious foods. They love fast foods and junk foods, while refusing to eat whole [...]
Exasperated, frustrated, and well-meaning parents actually make their child’s picky eating worse. It’s no wonder. Much of the advice concerning picky eating is counter-productive. Parents (and others) at the end of their rope, sometimes resort to harsh methods to get their kids to eat…something. Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater is [...]
I didn’t see the wisdom of a well-stocked pantry until we moved to the country over 30 years ago. At that time, I had four little girls and it was a half-hour drive to the nearest supermarket in good weather. We purchased a freezer and I made weekly trips to the grocers. It didn’t take [...]
