Four This and That Blocks

When my children were young, I thought I had the picky eater thing sorted. No one in my family was thrilled to see broccoli, zucchini, Brussels sprouts or carrots at the dinner table, but they happily devoured spaghetti sauce, soups and casseroles with those same vegetables minced or grated into them. But there’s a four-year-old at my house now who has me stumped. He’ll eat bread, rolls, biscuits, pancakes, waffles, fries and precious little else. For instance, if I butter his roll, I’ve ruined it and he won’t touch it. So I checked the Mayo Clinic website to see if they had any suggestions. They said offering dessert as a bribe will give kids the idea that dessert is somehow better than broccoli. (News flash: he already knows this.) They recommended removing mealtime distractions, like TV, toys or tablets. Great. His siblings are a bigger distraction than either of these. Should I remove them, too?