“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