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've used to help Cricket overcome her aversion to food. Eventually, with 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 these tips and recipes helpful on your road to helping your toddler become a lover of food!
Andrea
