Joe loves his solid foods.  Avocados, parsnip, carrots, chicken, spinach, beef… and so on and so forth.

However…

I’m worried about having a picky eater.  I don’t think that Chris or I were particularly picky eaters {though Chris did have a reputation for gagging and making himself throw up whenever they went out to eat at a restaurant!} but I’m a bit of a picky eater, now.  I know that, many times, children learn how to eat based on their parents’ eating habits.  I’d like for Joe to look at ours and see a diet full of healthy, diverse choices.

I’ve been hearing really good things about the book “My Two-Year-Old Eats Octopus: Raising Children Who Love to Eat Everything”.  It covers a range of things from breastfeeding to preschool, from parents’ eating habits to problem eating, from eating at home to eating at restaurants {and actually enjoying it}.

So far, everything that Joe has eaten he’s loved.  I’m hoping that this book will give me some more tips on how to continue to encourage him to try new foods!

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Are there any strange foods that you ate as a child?  Any strange foods that your child eats now?

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