Fussy eating in children is now such a common problem in the UK - and beyond! Would you like a fun book reading and food activity session for children to trigger them to be more curious, open-minded, adventurous eaters? Would you like a talk or workshop for parents and carers to teach them a crystal-clear, practical, research-based approach to conquer their children's fussiness?
Claire Potter is a writer and parent to a boy and a girl - one adopted, one home-made - who have about as much in common as an orangutan and a butterfly! After her own traumatic childhood experiences round the family dinner table, she set herself a parenting challenge: To create children who were non-fussy eaters and saw all food - not just chips and ice-cream - as one of life's biggest pleasures. So she had a big think and came up with a cunning plan! It worked and she shares her secrets in Getting the Little Blighters to eat. Following on from this, her 'interactive' children's picture book Which food will you choose? encourages children to go for new and different foods and was a winner in the Teach Early Years Awards 2022. You can visit her fussy eating website stopfussyeating.uk
Next, knowing how life with the little blighters can be exhausting and exasperating, she set out to find out what we can do to make day-to-day life as parents easier. What will really improve children's behaviour? What does the evidence show? She interviewed child psychologists, squeezed the knowledge and expertise from their brains, and squashed it into Getting the Little Blighters to Behave. Here, in one little book, are the parenting techniques, tactics, tips and tricks that research shows really do work.
Finally, Claire loves to think up outside-the-box ideas that lead to mini-adventures and (good) mischief to get up to with children! You can find a whole bunch of these ideas in her first book Keeping the Little Blighters Busy and her blog The Quirky Parent that she wrote when her children were younger. Take a look at this article she wrote for The Guardian on the 13 challenges she set her son when he turned 13!
