Do You Have Picky Eaters?

Picky eaters:   You have all heard about them but do you have one?  Are they created or are they born? There is some evidence that a child’s sense of smell can affect how willing or unwilling they are to try a new food.  Or perhaps, in a moment of worry, the decision is made to offer alternative foods in an attempt to get your little people to actually eat something, anything.

Some ideas to avoid picky eating include:

• Expose them to as much as you can when they are young.
• Stand your ground.  Either offer the meal you prepared or two choices you pick.  If they say no, you may want to offer a backup (use the same one all the time) or let them go without eating.  Unless they have medical issues, missing a meal is not that big of a deal.

If you have a picky eater what can you do about it?

• Take a little stress out of making sure your children get the nutrition they need by making sure they take a daily vitamin.
• Look at how they eat over the whole week not just one day.
• Eat with your kids.

Happy Holidays from Step 2 and the Eisenberg Family

Thanks to our friends at Step2 the Eisenberg Family will receive the

LifeStyle™ Grand Walk-In Kitchen

We asked Nicole a few questions about her twinnies and the holidays. Here is what she had to say:

I have boy/girl twins named Cooper Emerson and Mackenzie Heather Eisenberg. They are now 27 months old, born on September 15, 2009 at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, CA.  My husband and I are both Active Duty Naval Officers. My husband is a JAG Officer (Lawyer) currently deployed on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and I am an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon working at Balboa Hospital.  This is the second Christmas that daddy has been deployed.