Is Your Child Neophobic? Give Her More New, Not Less
YOUNG CHILDREN TEND TO BE FEARFUL of new foods, especially when the foods are arranged into the shape of a clown.
Young children tend to be naturally neophobic—afraid of newness—about food, experts now tell us. But is this neophobia inborn in normal children? Au contraire: children are born naturally wanting to discover and explore. Infants are ready to put anything and everything in their mouths.
Yet I have observed that the majority of kids who have come to my house over the years— though not my own kids—have indeed been afraid of not just new foods, but of food in general, including chicken, peas, potatoes,…
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