Breaking the cycle of picky eating requires parents to resist deeply ingrained impulses to control their children's food intake.

The scene plays out in countless Indian homes every evening: a parent coaxing, pleading, sometimes even bribing a child to “just take one more bite". The child refuses, the parent grows frustrated, and another dinner ends in tears and tension. What most parents don’t realise is that their well-intentioned efforts to ensure adequate nutrition are actually creating the very problem they’re trying to solve. And the problem gets more complex as kids grow.

The uncomfortable truth? Most picky eaters aren’t born; they’re made, shares Riddhi Verma, Founder & CEO, Baby-Led Weaning India. The feeding practices that seem most logical are often the ones that backfire most

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