It is very common for kids to be slightly picky about what they eat. Finding a child who enjoys green vegetables is certainly harder than finding one who doesn’t. Picky eaters can often make lots of progress in about 8 to 10 treatment sessions. Eventually, kids can practice eating foods that they’re learning to like at home. After a while, they’ll take a tiny bite and work up to trying more of it and deciding if they like it.
They might start by being in the same room with the food, then smelling it. Then they start taking baby steps toward eating those foods. Together, they can figure out what’s turning the kid off about each food. Then the child and the therapist can make lists of the foods the child might want to try and foods their parent wants them to try. Kids need to know that new foods won’t hurt them. This is where a therapist can help kids understand how digestion and diet work. Other kids may avoid foods because they don’t like the texture or they’re afraid of choking. For example, a child with OCD may have an unhealthy obsession with healthy foods and only eat vegetables. The first step is to understand why your kid is avoiding certain foods. The longer a child’s picky eating habits go on, the harder it is to get them to eat foods they’ve been avoiding.
Some kids have anxiety about food or specific foods. Some kids smell and taste flavors more intensely than other people and that turns them off of a lot of foods. Serious picky eating happens for a few reasons. Kids can eat so little or so few different foods that it starts to affect their health or their daily lives. But sometimes picky eating becomes a real problem.
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