What is the number one misconception about raising healthy eaters?
It is not a parent’s job or responsibility to make a child eat certain foods. We all want our children to eat healthy foods and there are many ways to allow this to happen. Our first job is to offer healthy foods often, but not to force a child to eat. A hungry child will eat, so the more often healthy foods are offered, the more of them will be eaten. But children are sometimes fearful of food, not hungry, or more interested in trying to get boundaries than in eating. Unfortunately, these behaviours often result in disaster: a power struggle of over who gets their way. We can avoid this struggle by not over managing how much and what our child eats. Remember, you offer what you would like your child to eat. Then the rest is up to them. They can eat and nourish their body or choose not to eat with the consequence of hunger coming very soon. The beauty of this is that you were not the “bad guy” in this scenario. Hunger caused the discomfort, the result of them choosing not to eat. But s
