6 Food Mistakes Parents Make

The following excerpt is from a recent NY Times article, "6 Food Mistakes Parents Make":

"Fussiness about food is a normal part of a child’s development. Young children are naturally neophobic — they have a distrust of the new. Even the most determined parents can be cowed by a child’s resolve to eat nothing rather than try something new. As a result, parents often give in, deciding that a bowl of Cocoa Puffs or a Pop-Tart, while not ideal, must be better than no food at all...parents feel like it’s their job to just make their children eat something...but it’s really their job to serve a variety of healthy foods and get their children exposed to foods.”

The article goes on to discuss six common mistakes made by parents (not allowing children in the kitchen, for example), and offers strategies to increase the variety of healthy foods children are eating at home.

To read the entire article, visit the following link:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/health/healthspecial2/15eat.html