Try offering the same food indifferent ways: steamed, roasted, with a favorite dipping sauce, or have your toddler make her own fun food creations. Involve your child in food preparation to spark interest in the meal, or have them go grocery shopping with you.
Encourage your child to try new foods many times. Don't give up or become frustrated if it doesn't happen the first, second, or even tenth time! Offer small portions of the new food with old favorites. Over time, kids may grow to like foods that they initially avoided! There is no reason to become a short-order cook at mealtimes for your picky eater, since this may further encourage bad behavior. Children often are more open to new foods when everyone surrounding them is relaxed about eating.
Although they may not eat perfectly every day, they tend to eat well enough over the course of several days or a week. There's no need to become a short-order cook or beg your child to eat green things. However, you can make eating more toddler-friendly. What to do about it : Serving food the way your child wants it is okay, and that can help the whole family eat the same meal win!
But help her move beyond the deconstruction zone by explaining that everyone needs a tiny bit of taco or lasagna on their plate. Have her assemble the taco on a tiny piece of shell or serve herself a dab of the lasagna so she has the sensory experience of handling the combined food.
Don't insist she eat it, but it has to be on her plate so she gets used to what it looks like. If she gets upset, just stay calm and say, "We all have tacos on our plate tonight," and ask her about her latest playdate or her new pet fish. Sometimes not talking about food at the table is the best way to ensure happy meals.
Great article! Here is one more article about picky kids and mealtime struggles that I found very useful.. Hope it helps someone! By Stephanie Wood Updated January 13, Save Pin FB More. Illustration by Teddy Kang. Credit: Illustration by Teddy Kang. Credit: Illustration and Animation by Teddy Yang. Illustration of child sticking tongue out and looking green looking at a piece of cauliflower being fed to him.
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Back to story Comment on this project. Tell us what you think Thanks for adding your feedback. I felt like a good mum. I felt like I had this eating thing sorted. In fact, I believed that they had brought the problems upon themselves, by not offering their child a good range of different tastes and textures and instead pandering to their children. Oh, how wrong I was. Foods he had previously wolfed down were left untouched, met with grimaces and tears. His appetite seemed to shrink in a reverse correlation with his growth.
The bigger he got, the less he would eat. My baby with the hearty appetite and rolls of comforting fat was replaced by a skinny little boy with the appetite of a sparrow. I no longer felt like a good mum. In fact, I felt like a complete failure. Each day I felt as if I was failing my son, failing to keep him healthy, failing to provide him with the nutrients he needed to grow big and healthy.
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