by Stacie Billis | Sep 6, 2017 | Tips + Tricks
No matter our personal eating or cooking habits, all parents have one food concern in common: We want our kids to eat healthy. Naturally, most of us work on this at mealtimes; we look for healthy kid-friendly recipes, we trade tips on how to encourage kids to eat more...
by Stacie Billis | Jul 27, 2017 | Tips + Tricks
Nothing is more frustrating than mustering the energy to cook dinner only to have your kid refuse to eat. I can’t think of a single parent who wouldn’t agree that yelling, tearing out your hair, giving up cooking, drinking heavily, or some combination of...
by Stacie Billis | Jul 13, 2017 | Tips + Tricks
I’ve been around the block a few times, and when you travel these parts with a degree in child development and experience as a family food expert, you end up talking a whole lot about picky eaters. I’ve fielded every question imaginable and have heard...
by Stacie Billis | Jun 24, 2017 | Recipes
Between all of us on the Cool Mom staff, we have serious experience with picky eaters, from kids with texture sensitivities to ones who insist on a single color group and eaters who just might be more stubborn than selective to others who inexplicably like sushi but...
by Stacie Billis | Jun 17, 2017 | Tips + Tricks
Whether you have an adventurous eater or a picky one, it is a parenting truth that we all grapple with how to get kids to eat more vegetables. Because it’s not always a matter of teaching them to like broccoli — even if you manage that, they may suddenly...
