Ep. 175 | Six Ways to Handle Picky Eaters
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Jeff Bethke and Jeremy Pryor talk about handling picky eaters.
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| 0:00.0 | Our pediatrician actually told us to do that one. |
| 0:02.4 | Our kids were having a hard time eating certain vegetables. |
| 0:04.5 | He's like, just cover with butter, salt, sugar, just get him to eat it. |
| 0:13.5 | Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor. |
| 0:19.6 | Join us Monday through Friday as we |
| 0:21.1 | chat about quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip you on your journey as a father to build |
| 0:26.0 | your multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned. |
| 0:34.7 | What's up, guys, Jeff and Jeremy here. Six ways to handle picky eaters. That's what we're |
| 0:38.9 | going to try to solve in about five or six minutes. This is a question from Kenner, I believe, from homeroom, or I think I can't remember if it was homeroom or the five-minute fatherhood group, but part of our community and said, honestly, we have kind of this is dinner. If you don't want it, You don't have to eat it, but nothing else is eaten until next meal deal type at our house. |
| 0:54.8 | Now, that's a great start as number one. |
| 0:56.6 | But let's go back and forth. |
| 0:57.9 | Jeremy on. you don't have to eat it, but nothing else is eaten until next meal deal type at our house. |
| 0:54.8 | Now, that's a great start as number one. But let's go back and forth, Jeremy, on other ways to do that because sometimes you can run into roadblocks of that one, right? I'm like, hey, this is all that's on the table. You're going to go hungry. I think that's actually a fairly decent one. Obviously, if you do it in kindness and gentleness, then it just like kids start to understand, like, oh yeah, this is a brick wall that I can't budge and I'm hungry. I need to eat tomorrow. |
| 1:12.1 | But how would you kind of, let's, |
| 1:12.9 | let's go through these one by one of what would you say or some real, because this is a problem |
| 1:16.1 | that happens to a lot of us. What are some tips we would do? Yeah, totally. And I, there's, I don't think there's one right way to do this. |
| 1:21.9 | So it's important to kind of try to figure out like what, what's a whole list? |
| 1:26.4 | And so that's a good one. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, I like that. |
| 1:30.5 | This is our dinner. try to figure out like what what's a whole list and so that's a good one of kinners. Have a multifaceted |
| 1:28.0 | strategy. Yeah, I like that. This is our dinner. We've definitely done a lot of that. Another one is that we did a lot of our houses. You have to take a bite of everything. This is the idea of like you want your kids to at least have exposure to different textures and not get completely caught in a rut. So you don't have to eat |
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