Permission and calmness are extremely important elements to support mindful eating. If we want our kids to grow up with a healthy mindset we need to take the stigma out of the idea of dessert and we need to find a way to connect with our kids during mealtime. Just like anything in life, it is our job to teach and guide our children to approach things such as sugar with a healthy mentality. Sugar is out there and it isn’t going anywhere. It is important that we educate them on

“A child who trusts that they can choose to eat or not eat and learn to like foods in their own time will become more relaxed around food and more adventurous in their eating.’ - Mariel Baron @nuturing.intuitive.eaters.rd Is it really that important to say goodbye to picky eating? I’m sure any adult reading this right now has some weird aversion to one or more foods. But we’re adults, we can make those decisions ourselves, right? I have an aunt in her fifties and whenever I h

“Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves.” - Jean Piaget In order to understand why our children are picky eaters, it is important to understand the cognitive development of a child. When a child is first born, the wide-eyed, enthusiastic, and somewhat apprehensive parents carefully and methodically place that teeny tiny child into that enormous, complicated car seat. They are given a pat on the back, congratulated, and sent out into the wor

People who know me and my family often ask how I got into the business of picky eating. I have two extremely active, hungry boys who seem to never stop eating! Not only do they never stop eating, at ages 4 and 6, they quite often make healthy choices on their own. We are a plant based family and people often joke that my kids will eat anything because they are starving (that is a whole other issue I will get into later). From an early age I only had one rule at the dinner tab