Setting Limits and Staylistening Those of you with picky eaters are familiar with requests—or demands—for “something else” to eat. Rigidity around food is like rigidity around anything else: it signals a need for help. We often need to set a limit for a child who ventures off to replace our food selections with his own.
Ahhh Thanksgiving. That time of year when social media is filled with picture perfect seasonal crafts and articles talking about how to give thanks with your little ones. Recipes display the “best-tasting turkey” and pictures show everyone at the family dinner table with angelic faces aglow. What’s wrong with this picture? Did we hear…a
Dear Hand in Hand My child is the pickiest eater I have ever met. Everything has to be completely unblemished and their food cannot have touched anything else that might discolor it. On top of this, they will eat almost only white food! I don’t want to force food onto them, or make eating a
This morning my daughter had a tantrum because I didn’t give her as much maple syrup as she wanted. She declared she wasn’t eating breakfast and threw herself into some angry crying. I quieted my mind that wanted to argue with her and say, “You asked for pancakes all morning and you have plenty of