Picky eater not eating at school?
⏰On average, kids in the USA have LESS THAN 20 minutes to walk to ENTER, EAT and EXIT the school cafeteria*. BTW, most states require at least 30 minutes for a lunch break for ADULTS at work!
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❤️If YOUR goal as a parent is to ensure your kid gets a nutritious lunch but YOUR KID’S goal is to get a break and chat with friends…(both great goals!) then here are strategies from my book, Raising a Healthy Happy Eater:
👉🏼Use an easy-open Bento box, so no time is wasted asking for help to open individual baggies, containers, etc.
👉🏼Cut the food into what I call “grab and gab” food so that kids can pop a piece in their mouth and keep chatting. You’d be surprised how much more a kid will eat when there are small pieces of all kinds of food to pop in their mouth!
👉🏼Make sure their drink is also in an easy-to-sip straw bottle.
👉🏼Practice at home – have lunchbox dinners occasionally!
👉🏼👉🏼When you practice, include the school lunch routine. Some schools bring all the lunchboxes to the cafeteria in a wagon or bucket and then the kids search for theirs among all the others! Tie a bright ribbon on your kids’ so it’s easy to spot to save time!
💕Melanie
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*Source: School Nutrition 2022 State Mandate Report
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🥄🥄🥄 Feeding one baby? Bring three spoons to the table. Babies like to grab anything you’re offering, and that’s a good thing to boost along self-feeding! Let baby have a spoon in each
hand and use the third for offering puree or mashed foods. Mashed foods require a bit more oral skill than smooth purees, so I typically start with purees, but it’s not essential.
If you read baby’s cues and offer tiny tastes rather than a big spoonful at first, you’re being a responsive feeder. Here’s the deal about Responsive Feeding – no judgment, just
communication between you and your little one that they’d like more or less, or they’d like your help or they’d simply like your company.
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The most common structural issues I see in picky eater’s mouths?
😛A tongue that rests too far forward due to enlarged tonsils, adenoids, narrow palate, tongue tie and other structural issues. But even when the tongue is able to rest comfortable between the teeth, the kids may have a misalignment of the teeth that makes breaking down the food very, very difficult. All of these issues can impact FUNCTION.
👄Kids may learn to compensate for a crossbite or a tongue-tie or even learn to squeeze softs food between
two huge tonsils, but if food is hard to eat, it’s JUST HARD TO EAT. So what do kids do? They become “picky” when in fact, they are just trying to feel safe.
😞Kids may say “I don’t like that” when you offer a new food. But in fact, what they are really experiencing is “I CAN’T EAT THAT.”
👉🏼👄Their mouths just are not able to do it!
🙏🏻Thanks for sharing this post. Let’s get the word out to #pediatricians, #dentists & #parents that picky
eating isn’t something many kids will grow out of, if these common issues are not addressed. It takes an
experienced feeding therapist (OT or SLP) who understands the mechanics of feeding development to spot feeding difficulties due to less-than-ideal structure in that adorable little face. 💕 #melaniepotock
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