5 Common mistakes made with a fussy eater I was speaking to a group of mums with pre-schoolers who all had challenges around getting the children eating, especially dinner. One thing that came out of the session was how easy it is for us to inadvertently make eating more difficult for our fussy eater and […]
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Food smells – a common challenge for fussy eaters You’re busy frying some onions when your child enters the kitchen, looks at you in horror and begins gagging. They rush from the room in disgust refusing point blank to have dinner or even sit at the table if the onions are there. One mum told
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Success story – peas, corn, beans and mince! I just had a lovely e-mail from a mum. I ran a parent workshop with her and her husband right before “home retreat” started. *Hunter’s diet included the picky eating favourites of toast, crackers, rice, tinned spaghetti but excluded any fruit or vegetables. At preschool he had,
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How to help a slow eater, especially a picky one! One common complaint about picky eaters is that they eat too slowly. Often mind-numbingly, the food could evaporate more quickly, slowly. Children eating very slowly is very, very frustrating. Especially when we are tired, we are busy and often because we have other places to
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Children cooking Helen was jumping for joy. Her 8-year-old daughter, a long-term fussy eater, had a limited range of foods she ate and had just bitten into a burger. This was huge! Lily had never eaten any sort of mince before so Helen couldn’t believe her eyes. Lily had started helping in the kitchen and
Why make changes to food? I know this is a crazy time, but it’s also a rare opportunity. Aside from parents who are both working full time from home, with young children, many people have unprecedented amounts of time. Even if working, there are no commutes, no pick-ups or drops offs and no external activities.
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Routines Last week I wrote about routines. This week I’m going to write about routines again 😊 There are a few reasons why so please hear me out. I was running the second part of my parent workshop for a family today. In just a few days they have seen a real improvement in how
Additional support During these unprecedented times there will be a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. We are already though, seeing some of the positive side-effects with time being freed from all the usual activities and gifting us the opportunity to reconnect as families. It was starkly illuminated to me last week as I realised I’d
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Structure and routines are important even in uncertainty I feel we’re all entering a whole new world. There are many unknowns and that alone can be anxiety producing. On the other side when we have children, maintaining routines is a great way to support them to remain calm. What may happen There could well be
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These are unprecedented times for the modern era Although we’re based in NZ, which at the moment has not seen a big outbreak of the Corona Virus, most of our family is based in the UK, with some in Australia. My parents contacted me to say they have been told to self-isolate for 4 months
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Is it my fault my child is picky? I always ask parents why they think their child struggles to eat. Many give me a list of all the things they feel they have done wrong. Others really struggle to give an answer as food has just always seemed so challenging for their child. So, is
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Hit a wall with picky eating? Have you exhausted yourself and all the alternatives with your fussy eater but still seem stuck in the same patterns? Then let’s gift you a 6 step plan, the proven way to gently move a picky eater from their favourite foods to new foods. Step 1 Get in touch.
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