How your fussy eater may be doing way better than you realise

How your fussy eater may be doing way better than you realise

Today, I’d like to share a critically important message with you, through a story that one of the mums I worked with shared. Although this is a unique story, it is similar to many others I hear on a regular basis from the families that I work with.

And when I say critically important, I mean it. In fact, this is one of the most important things for parents of selective eaters to know!

So let’ look at this through the story of Marcus* and his mum.

Marcus is primary-school aged and found new foods very challenging. He also had a narrow list of foods he would generally be able to manage.

In this particularly instance, it was lunchtime on a Saturday, and mum was eating crumbed calamari. Marcus asked whether he could try the calamari. Mum said sure and he took a piece.

He put the piece on his plate and stared at it for about ten minutes. Finally, Marcus picked up the piece of calamari and took a tiny nibble of the crumb.

If this happened in your house what would your reaction be? Would you be disappointed? Would you be excited? Would you feel like this was just an example of false hope?