expr@programming.dev 1 week ago
It’s not performative. Research shows that kids can need 8-10 or more exposures to a new food before they’re willing to try it. It’s important to keep offering foods even if they’ve refused it before.
I’ve personally seen this effect with my 2 year old son. Had absolutely no interest in noodles of any kind for a long time, yet we kept offering them, and one day he decided to try them and loved them. In fact, most new foods he eats are a similar story.
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 week ago
What works incredibly well with my 2 year old is eating them yourself and not care that he doesn’t like them.
Offer, accept the rejection, continue on your own, compliment the cook. Offer again and again in the meantime, not force, compliment the food again, keep eating. He usually wants to figure out what the hype is about and try a bite. Often scarfs the rest of the plate. Happened again with shrimps yesterday, first time he saw them.
expr@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yep, that’s exactly what we do, and it tends to work. Can take a bit for some foods and sometimes he’s just really into just one thing right now, but overall it’s much better than trying to force feed him broccoli or whatever.