I am a 31 year old mother of two boys (3 & 4yrs old) and early childhood educator who has come across many picky eaters. In my experience, I have learned that many of those children would eat their food, when it was served on toothpicks. Obviously, toothpicks are not at all safe to give to a young child so when my oldest son became one of those picky eaters at the age of 2, I turned to the internet for some other ideas.
After much research, I found that many other parents had also turned to toothpicks to encourage their children to eat. On the counter side, I found that many parents agreed that toothpicks worked but didn’t feel comfortable giving them to their young children. Then it ...