We've adopted a principle similar to TOM's 1 for 1 policy.
We have often encouraged out children to eat a variety of food during meal times. One of the ways we get them to do this is the 1 for 1 policy {game}. Today I spent 30+ minutes trying to get my almost-2-year-old to eat a cheese burger. I know, right! She doesn't want to eat a cheese burger? Anyways. I ended up tearing the burger into bit-sized pieces and sat with a bag of grapes exchanging 1 grape for every 1 bit of burger. It may sound silly but it's worked for our 2 oldest kids.
What parenting tricks have you learned to help your kids eat?
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I bribed them… Back then I am sure I used pretty parent speak to make it sound better, but bribery was my best friend. I had lots of tricks to getting them to try new things, but to get them to finish dinner, bribery worked every time.
You are too funny! I use bribery but call it “rewards” ;o)
I called it “positive reinforcement” (bribery)
Nice!