Listen up, parents:
the reality is that you cannot stop your
child from being a
fussy eater. No
amount of bribery, tellings-off,
cajoling, commanding or
nagging is going to
change anything and indeed the more
pressure you put
on them to consume
something they don’t want to, the
more resistant they
will become.
The best tactic is
to simply present your children with
a wide array of
foods and meals and
then say absolutely nothing.
This is certainly an approach that will require a bit of willpower and
tongue-biting, but it can work wonders to gradually undo fussy eating. You
actually have a considerably higher chance of kids eating a much hated food –
like broccoli for instance- if you do not push the issue, and this applies in
the long term too.
A study of
university students found that once they had left home, they quickly chose to
not consume foods that they were forced by their parents to eat when they were
children.
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