Jo Cormack
Eight reasons to use a visual menu for your ‘picky eater’
In this article, I’m going to share a strategy which can help enormously with food anxiety: the visual menu. What is a visual menu? A visual menu is a method of communicating to your child what you will be serving…
Beyond reason: why rational arguments do not support children’s eating
You are rational – I am rational (please don’t ask my husband and kids to verify this). We make the odd ‘heart over head’ decision and it’s great to listen to intuition too, but largely, as adults, we make most…
Are you worrying about your child’s ‘picky eating’?
Usually, children’s eating anxiety is my main focus, but today, the spotlight is on you: I wanted to share a few thoughts about parents’ anxiety. You may be so fixed on your child’s worries about food, that you sideline your…
When your friends just don’t get it…
When my kids were very small, we had recently moved to the area, NONE of my old friends had children and in my wider family, I was the first of my generation to have a baby, so I was not…
Spotlight on: sugar snap peas
Sugar snap peas and snow peas are different varieties of Pisum Sativum from the pea family, bred to be eaten, pod and all. Hence – as the French say – ‘mange tout’. I have been thinking about them recently because…
Some thoughts on diagnosis
Earlier this month, I was diagnosed with dyspraxia. Although talking about it leaves me feeling a little vulnerable – after all, the basis for my diagnosis goes to the heart of all the areas where I have secretly felt inadequate…
