Kids and Food

Not to drastically oversimplify how to deal with kids who cannot be tricked into eating broccoli even if you call them “dinosaur trees,” but can we converge on a few things? Keeping in mind my baby tried to eat a screwdriver yesterday, so I have had no first-hand experience at this point in time?

1. Don’t force your kid to eat.

2. Don’t present the plate of uneaten food at subsequent meals, unless you want your kid to write fan mail to Christina Crawford.

3. Don’t make separate meals for each individual member of your family.

4. Don’t hook your kid up to an IV of goldfish crackers out of the mistaken belief that they will otherwise willingly starve themselves to death.

That is all.