19/10/2025
✨ Parenting Tip: Pressure Makes Eating Worse ✨
Did you know children eat better when they are not pressured? 🍎 Research shows pressure disrupts their natural hunger cues and may even create lifelong food aversions.
🚫 Pressure can look like:
“Three more bites”
Dessert as a reward
Overpraising every bite
Forcing hand-over-hand feeding
💡 Instead, focus on creating a safe, pressure-free mealtime:
✅ Offer food, but let them decide how much to eat
✅ Model eating by enjoying the food yourself
✅ Give opportunities to explore food without forcing
Remember: our job as adults isn’t to get food in children—it’s to create conditions where they feel safe to eat and trust their own bodies. ❤️
