Focus on Better Behavior

Recently, there was an article in the Telegraph newspaper about parents who are concerned about controlling the way their children eat or don’t eat. When a parent puts too much emphasis or worry around their child’s eating they set up a situation where the child takes the position of “you cannot tell me what to do”. The best what to approach eating, potty training and other issues that a parent cannot control is to ignore the behavior so that the child doesn’t get undue attention from doing it.