When was the last time you ate a piece of unadorned steamed broccoli? Can you say you enjoyed it? Did one bite make you want to take another? Exactly. Once I had my daughter, I decided I didn’t want her to eat vegetables solely because they’re healthy. Nor did I want to hide them in …
When I told my kids we were having cod for dinner, my 5-year-old son hunched in displeasure. “The only fish I like is salmon,” he declared. “I will NOT eat dinner!” “OK,” I replied, and turned back to the kitchen. “It’s crunchy, just so you know. I know you like things that are crunchy.” Thirty …
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They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Like many, I had my daughter Bryce while also working at a pretty intense, full-time job (I was a magazine publisher at the time). For so many working parents, success means maximizing the time we have and cramming in as much productivity as possible. In our …
As parents, we’re all part of the never-ending story that is trying to find things for our kids to do. Ideally those activities won’t simply entertain—they’ll also teach our progeny something practical and helpful (dare we say, even important?) about themselves/the world/stuff other than an iPad. Enter cooking: It’s educational, it’s confidence-building, it’s fun—and, if …
Picky eaters aren’t made; they’re born. That’s the realization food and culture writer Joshua David Stein had when his first son, Achilles, started (not) eating solid food. “Food is a big part of my life, but the only way Achilles and I interacted about food was through fighting,” Stein says. He turned to children’s books …
