The World’s Simplest Solution to Picky Eating: Freedom Within Limits
The other day a man was telling me how one of his kids had been a picky eater.
As I always do, I asked him what he did about it.
“We’d sit there with him and tell him he had to eat certain amounts of the various things on the table. We’d sit there and insist until he did it,” he told me.
A typical strategy, I thought. And a counter-productive one.
Then he added, with a note of curiosity: “We noticed, though, that if we actually left the room for awhile he would eat.”
I wasn’t surprised by those results. Just another proof of the Push-Pull Principle.
Nobody likes to be pressured and forced to eat something they don’t want to eat….
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