5 reasons to look for help for a picky eater

You have a picky eater in the house and things aren’t great. But they are still young so you’re hoping it will improve as they age. Your partner was a fussy eater as a child, and they eat well now so they should grow out of it.

Most parents I speak to have been limping for a long time before they get in touch. That makes sense as often just when we feel we should get help our child suddenly eats something new and we think it’s going to be okay. Or we read about a new strategy that we’re sure will help so defer getting help for a while.

When we know 100% it’s time to get help that often seems insurmountably hard too. There isn’t really a lot of choice. We are worried that it will be too expensive/time consuming/difficult. We are also secretly concerned our child will be too extreme to benefit.

I would be rich if I had a dollar for every parent who tells me either “I wish I’d found you sooner” or “I wish I’d done something when I first knew things were going wrong”.

5 reasons to seek help for our picky eater

1. We have given up — we have had a picky eater in the house for what seems like an eternity and we have tried everything to get them to eat more widely and nothing has worked.