So recently I was babysitting my cousin's kids and I was shocked to see how well and diverse Adelle (2) eats! Salley, her mama, told me about this fabulous book she read. She said it is one of the very best parenting books she has ever read. Naturally I was intrigued. The book is called
French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billon. (I have linked the book to Karen's blog, which is excellent!) This book is a great biography of Karen and her family who moved from Canada to rural France. I did tons of research before I bought the ebook version of this book. My research online proved Karen's theories correct. Tons of people have had great success exposing their kids to foods they never dreamed they would eat. Sadly, I do not have any children yet so I can't test the theory for myself. If anyone is willing to let me use their children as guinea pigs please let me know! (haha)
French Kids Eat Everything has 10 "rules." I say this hesitantly because even the author says to use these as guidelines. Here is an illustration from the back of the book of the French Food Rules…
One of my favorite guidelines is that kids don't have to like something the first time they taste it. It is important that they taste it though! Le Billon suggests it can take up to 10 tastes to finally LIKE something. I think this is so true! I know a lot of times I don't like something the first time I eat it but it can grow on me and eventually I like it! I could go on and on raving about this book. I think you should do some research for yourself though and see if this would work for your family. As a plus this book contains some great recipe's that children would like, as well as adults!
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