Christmas –A time of (un)happy eating?
How was your Christmas? Chances are it had its moments - children laughing and Walton-style family bonding, but those times may have been punctuated with stress, everyone getting on each other’s nerves and some pretty fraught mealtimes. Mealtimes can be stressful at the best of times. As well as feeding my own family, 7 days a week for the past 19 years (yes it does get monotonous, doesn’t it?), I do spend a lot of time listening, sympathising and trying to help other parents.
So today I had an email from a lovely lady who contacted me for skype support about 6 months ago. Her main goal? For her fussy little eater to sit up and eat Christmas dinner with the extended family this year. Her email today was one of the best I have had all year ‘He did it! He sat up at the table and had the same meal as the rest of the family!’. So why was...