![]() Handling, smelling, and touching the food helps your child get comfortable with the idea of eating it. Involve your child in preparing the meal (like dropping cut-up fruit into a bowl for fruit salad).Use healthy dips such as yogurt, hummus, ketchup, or low-fat salad dressings to encourage children to eat fruits, vegetables, and meats.Over time, these choices will become as liked and familiar as her favorite mac-n-cheese. Also give him what the rest of the family is eating in toddler-sized portions. But do make sure that at each meal, there is something he knows and likes on the plate. Avoid becoming a short-order cook and preparing special meals for your child.Encourage him to touch, smell, lick, or taste the new food. Put new foods next to foods your child already likes.Some children are simply less likely to try new things based on their temperament-their individual way of approaching the world. Talk to your child’s health care provider about any nutritional concerns you may have.Give her an animal cracker to dip in the applesauce. If you’d like your child to try a “mushy” food, combine it with a crunchy food that she does like. Does your child have trouble with “mushy” foods? Then offer apple slices instead of applesauce, or a baked potato instead of mashed. Track your child’s food sensitivities and keep them in mind when preparing meals.Children need to be offered a new food as many as 10-15 times before they will eat it. Gently but frequently offer new kinds of foods.Offer several healthy food choices-among the foods your child does like-at each meal.Some children are sensitive to the taste, smell, or texture of food. Listed below are some of the most common causes of picky eating and ideas for how to respond. There are many reasons why a child may be choosier than usual at mealtime. What to Do About Picky Eating in Toddlers And if you are a “picky eater” yourself, then your young child is likely to imitate you in this behavior, just as she imitates the way you talk on the phone or the way you wave good-bye to her each morning at child care. In short, your young child will probably be less willing to try something new if you haven’t tasted it. A study found that mothers who showed (with their facial expressions, body language, or words) that they didn’t want to try a new food had children who also tended to refuse new foods (Carruth & Skinner, 2000). ![]()
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