If You Give My Picky Eater Some Turkey …

An open letter to any relative who plans to invite my family to Thanksgiving dinner: In the spirit of the season, I want to thank you and yours for inviting my family and our little picky eater to your traditional Thanksgiving celebration.  I should warn you that my sweet 3-year-old isn’t always the most adventurous eater and may turn up her nose at the traditional holiday fare, but I have a few helpful tips for you here: If you give my picky eater some turkey, she’s going to ask for a hot dog.  When you give her the hot dog, she’ll probably ask you for ketchup.  Then, she’ll ask for more ketchup.  And then, she’ll refuse the hot dog, because it’s “cold”.  It’s a cold dog.  So she’ll just eat the ketchup. If you give my picky eater green bean casserole, she’ll panic.  She only eats foods that are easily identified.  Green bean casserole is not easily identified.  But, if you put ketchup on it, it’s fine.  I’ve brought her favorite brand of ketchup, which you have to serve in the original plastic bottle so she can see you squirting it onto her plate. Don’t ever remove the bottle from your lavishly-set table. She’s needs to see it at all times. If you give my picky eater cranberry sauce from a can, she’ll ask: “How did it get in the can?” along with 100 gazillion other questions.  “Why does it jiggle? What are those lumps? Cranberries? What are cranberries?  It looks like red vomit.”  Now, no one at the Thanksgiving table wil...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs