Category Archives: Picky eating

The myth of letting go

When a parent asks other parents how to get their child to eat more vegetables or more solids, there’s a wave of advice flooding in. ‘Relax, she’ll grow out of it.’ ‘Just let it go and wait until it passes, it’s just another phase.’ ‘Make Pinterest-proof monsters out of fruit.’ ‘Tell how broccoli are little…

When diets are projected in Plato’s Insta-cave

A few weeks ago, my private Instagram led me to a reel titled ‘What my toddler eats in a day’. Unlike those ‘my kid eats broccoli like a champion’ videos – that are falsely suggesting that eating broccoli is one of the highest achievements in parenting – this video promoted a high-protein, low-carb, and moderately…

De-pathologizing picky eating

‘I hope my child won’t be a picky eater.’ I hear this so often from parents, and every time I recognize both the worry and the hope behind those words. The tricky part of ‘picky’ is that picky eating lacks a clear definition. Researchers, blogs, and parents all describe picky eating differently: some say it’s…

‘I was a picky feeder’

There I was, nearly 3 years ago, helping my toddler in our hotel bathroom, telling him that it might be harder to poo because he ate too many of those cookies at the buffet. What I said wasn’t exactly true, because our transit is more complex than my one-liner. The truth was … I could…