How do I Deal with My Picky Eater?
So your four year old won't eat anything but cheese and crackers? Your six year old hates anything with a sauce on it. Your eight year old won't let his lips touch a vegetable if his life depended on it. What do you do? You're trying to be a good parent and provide nutritious meals to your growing children but it's getting more and more challenging.
As a parent and a chef, I frequently get asked how to deal with a picky eater. ...
Every day, parents and carers in the world have to deal with children's behaviour which sometimes can be, let's say... quite challenging! You need to get them to school and they don't want to get dressed, you want to cook dinner but your clingy toddler is pulling your legs and making a big fuss as they want to be picked up, you need to do some shopping but they decide to have a master fit in the middle of the supermarket... yes, it is a big challenge! But not an impossible one ...
Toddler tantrums are one of the most difficult things to deal with when parenting a toddler. The best way of dealing with them is to avoid them, and to do that you need to know what causes them. Here are 5 causes of toddler tantrums:
1. Frustration
You know how frustrating it is when you are trying to get your computer to do something and it won't. Now imagine you are two years old. What tools have you got to deal with that frustration? Toddlers can't verbalise their frust ...
