Beth Kimmerle

Because if you, as the parent, can create what they call this positive experience, repeated exposure, create a social context.

So let's just back up from that.

What does that mean to...

You introduce foods repeatedly, right?

So repeated exposure means you're showing up with the broccoli and the mac and cheese at the same time.

And then at some point, you're eliminating the mac and cheese and you're just constantly exposing the food.

quote unquote, fussy eater to the item that you wish them to enjoy and that you're showing them how to eat it yourself.

So when we talk about this social context piece of it, it's really showing them that you can have a positive experience with it instead of just putting it on the plate.

you're picking up that piece of broccoli, you're showing them how delicious it is and training them through your actions as opposed to just putting it on the plate.

So yes, there's a method to working with fussy eaters.

And it's also around being less emotional, strangely enough, and less reactive and just exposing.

We all like sweet, right?

I have never met anybody who is just totally opposed to sweet.

I do know people who don't like

sweets in general, they sort of run towards savory, but I don't know anybody who's just shut down from sweet.

And that is an evolutionary, there is an evolutionary reason for that.

And that is because sweet, let's call it carbohydrates, sweet keeps humans alive.

Sweet as a taste.

keeps humans alive or has kept humans alive.

And so it's a really, really important basic taste.