179. Is Letting Your Child Choose Ruining Their Diet? (and What Parents Ought To Do About It)

Veggies & Virtue: Feeding Help for Faith-Based Families

On today's episode, I go over a topic that has come up a lot lately over on social. And that is - Do we let our kids choose? This could be choosing what's for breakfast, when they have another snack, or if they eat any of their dinner. Each of those items is, in fact, a choice. And with that, if our child isn't the one choosing the answer/outcome, then we as the parents likely already have or will. That's why, I thought this was a helpful segment to reshare from a former group coaching call. Because I know for many of you, you are likely amidst what I call, role reversal. Your child is the one deciding what, when, and where they eat. And you, loving parent, are deciding if/whether and how much they eat. The challenge is this is backwards. And as I will talk through on today's episode, it is assuming too much choice from our kids in areas they aren't equipped to handle. Further, it is often perpetuating a lot of the nutritional problems and power struggles we see in feeding our kids because the role and boundaries are, well, backwards. So, let's talk through how much choice is healthy to give our kids. I am confident that after listening or reading through this, you will have a new sense of how to partner with your child (instead of experience the ever so common pushback of parenting or other feeding pitfalls).