Picky Eater Success!!!

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I just had to share this in the hope that it will help somebody else.

The story goes......

This past weekend we took our boys to see " Cars. " It was 's

first theater experience and we were pleasantly surprised how well he

did there (but that's another subject). ANYWAY... I got some popcorn.

Before the movie began, I offered some to him. Mind you, we're not a

popcorn eating family, so he'd never seen/had it before. I thought,

for sure, that he'd go for it (the carb-eating-machine that he is).

But he wouldn't touch it, no-sir-ee! I kept trying to coax him, but

no go.

The lights dimmed, the movie came on. I tried again, nd to my

surprise, I had to wrestle the box from the little sucker!

Lightbulb moment!

If he doesn't like the way it looks, he won't eat it..... Duh!

So tonight I tried to feed him a hotdog (without the bun). He used to

love them but stopped eating them about 5 or 6 months ago. Go figure!

(He eats SO FEW foods that I still try to go back to his old

favorites frome time-to-time.) Anyway, i'ts been no-go on the hotdogs.

Until tonight, that is.

We played peek-a-boo. I would cover his eyes with my hand, say, " Open

up for the surprise! " and don't you know he did. Not only THAT, he

gobbled down every bit of that hotdog!!!!!!

Lesson learned: His eating is a whole HUGE VISUAL thing and maybe I

can get him to eat other things this way.

NOTE: I thought about waiting to share this until he had eaten other

things in this manner, but I decided to not go there.... I decided

that I would share it now and let you guys, if you want to, try it. I

didn't want to muddy it with any success or failure stories, but,

rather, just put it out there.