Introducing: Food For Tots

Andrea of Mom-enclature

I’m Andrea, a proud member of the SWAT Team and the voice behind Mom-enclature, where I blog about my adventures of being a first-time, full-time, 40+ mom through adoption.  I’m what I like to call an “accidental expert” on feeding toddlers. For a very long time when she was nine months old, our daughter Cricket did not eat much of anything. This was a very trying time for me since Cricket was born twelve weeks early, weighing a mere 2 pounds and 3 ounces. So every morsel of food counted. My husband and I went to a nutritionist and a food therapist, but nothing helped. What did help was a quote I read from Ellyn Satter’s book, Child Of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense.

It’s my responsibility to put good food in front of her; it’s her responsibility to eat it.

These words resonated with me, and I realized that I had to change my behavior and not Cricket’s. At Food For Tots, you will find the strategies and recipes I used to help Cricket overcome her aversion to food. Eventually, with a few new strategies and recipes, she started eating and now, at age 3, she’s a typical, finicky toddler who will occasionally try something exotic like Hungarian Goulash or shish ka-bobs!

I hope you will find this section of Smart Women are Cooking helpful in your quest to help your toddler become a lover of food!

Andrea