This is why I wanted to sit down with an expert to talk about nutrition and kids. Julie Revelant is a nutrition expert and health journalist who specializes in teaching parents how to raise kids who crave healthy foods. I recently interviewed Julie on my Parenting Great Kids podcast, and she provided some excellent tips and insights into how parents can help their child become a healthy eater. 

I highly encourage you to listen to the full episode here, or wherever you like to listen to your podcasts. One of the biggest topics we hit is the one I probably hear about most from parents: picky eaters.

So many parents have children who won’t eat their vegetables, or simply don’t seem to want to eat at all. By dinnertime, parents are at their wit’s end and cave to their child, giving her whatever she wants, which just perpetuates the problem.

Julie offered some great advice for picky eaters that just might revolutionize dinnertime for your whole family.

Being a picky eater is a part of the developmental process.

Julie pointed out that when a baby starts to eat solid food, they eat anything. Then around age two, a child will…