What to do when your child refuses to eat vegetables

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What to do when your child refuses to eat vegetables

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My daughter didn't want to eat vegetables. I was shocked because my son ate everything. He's eight and she's four. When I saw people whose kids wouldn't eat vegetables, I would scoff at them, "Ha, your child doesn't eat vegetables, you must not know what you are doing." Then my daughter came along and she wouldn't eat her vegetables. She'd pick every little piece of green out of the food. At first, I was catering to her, then somewhere it hit me, "No, you are developing her palate. Don't allow her to determine her palate at this age." What I did is I made her plate like everybody else's and slowly it was the norm. Slowly, she just tried stuff. We would celebrate when she ate a vegetable. Now she eats everything; kale, collards, spinach, the works.

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Tanayi Seabrook has performed multiple roles on television productions-managing staffs, writing scripts, scheduling, budgeting, rights clearances, archival research and location scouting. At Peter Jones Productions, Tanayi was part of the production staff for a variety of episodes for A&E Network's Biography series, plus multiple programs for Turner Classic Movies. For five years Tanayi was on staff at Blackside, Inc., producers of the landmark PBS civil rights documentary series Eyes On the Prize. Tanayi worked on the PBS programs I'll Make Me A World: A Century of African American Art and Artists as well as This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys. She recently finished shooting a short film entitled The Cab, which she wrote and produced. Tanayi attended State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies and Political Science with a minor in Spanish. She also studied abroad at La Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. 

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