Food Language

Hi families, if you have a picky eater, the language we use around food can be really important to help reduce anxiety and increase your child's engagement during mealtime. So even things like this pretzel tastes really good, or, oh, these are my favorite crackers, without knowing it can induce pressure at your child to taste the food and can cause them to completely shut down.

One strategy I like to do is to take away all positive or negative expectations of the Explanations of food and just talk about the basics. Oh, look at this fish. It's orange. Look at my pretzel. It's so twisty Oh, man, when I crumble this look how small the pieces get what I taste it. It tastes like cheese to me These are some ideas that can encourage your child to learn about it food engage with food without any pressure to taste the food