This is a great article. I sure wish my 4-year-old son could read it..
It’s written by Lynn Jaffee and speaks in depth about her picky style of eating when being a child. And how later in life the gift of food became an amazing part of living..
I am having some major troubles in the parenting department.. my son Ayden just won’t try anything new. Dinner time becomes similar to some ancient battle of the Middle Ages, with each us of jousting for the lead.. In the end, my son wins and either doesn’t eat or has some strange dinner of his own..
We even tried to ‘you’re not eating anything’ bit. He holds out. He literally holds out and it doesn’t work..
The worst thing that can happen is when he announces, out of no where, that he suddenly does not want to eat a certain food anymore–obviously he gets tired of the same stuff.. And then the crisis occurs.. we are eliminating more foods off of his diet than gaining.
He is missing a world of tastes.. he has helped me cook, doesn’t mind touching things, but when it comes to actually trying stuff, he throws himself into near convulsions of fear.
Any advice parents among us?
