Picky Eating Without Pressure
In this practical online course, Child Nutrition Educator and Early Years Development Specialist Jane Mynhardt shares a supportive, step-by-step approach to picky eating, helping parents better understand their child’s eating behaviour, reduce pressure and conflict around food, and create calmer, more positive mealtimes. Rather than focusing on getting children to “eat more” or “try everything,” the course helps parents understand their role in feeding, trust their child’s appetite, and build a healthy relationship with food through connection, consistency, and pressure-free strategies.
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Who is this course for:
This course is designed for parents and caregivers who are experiencing picky or selective eating with their child and want a calmer, more confident approach to mealtimes.
It is especially valuable for parents who:
- Feel stressed, frustrated, or anxious about how much or what their child eats
- Regularly experience food refusal or resistance at mealtimes
- Find themselves persuading, negotiating, bribing, or pressuring their child to eat
- Want to understand what may be behind their child’s picky eating behaviour
- Want to learn how to respond to food refusal without turning meals into a battle
- Want to understand their role in feeding and their child’s role in deciding what and how much to eat
- Want to become more confident in trusting their child’s natural appetite
- Need practical guidance on creating balanced, pressure-free plates
- Want to establish calmer and more predictable mealtime routines
- Want to use connection and positive modelling to support their child’s relationship with food
- Are looking for realistic strategies that can be applied to everyday family life
- Want to recognise progress without expecting their child to suddenly eat everything
The course is particularly suited to parents who feel that mealtimes have become a source of tension or worry and want to move toward a more relaxed, supportive, and sustainable approach to feeding.
What people will learn:
- Understand picky eating and why it can happen
- Look beyond food refusal and recognise what may be influencing a child’s behaviour around food
- Understand the parent’s role and the child’s role during mealtimes
- Recognise why pressure, persuasion, bribing, and forcing can backfire
- Learn how to respond to food refusal in a calmer and more supportive way
- Build greater confidence in trusting a child’s hunger and fullness cues
- Create pressure-free plates that encourage exploration without forcing children to eat
- Establish calm, predictable, and supportive mealtime routines
- Use connection and positive role modelling to support healthy eating behaviours
- Reduce anxiety, frustration, and conflict around food
- Recognise small signs of progress rather than measuring success only by how much a child eats
- Create a healthier and more positive relationship with food for the whole family
Why choose this course?
Picky eating can turn something as ordinary as a family meal into one of the most stressful parts of the day. When a child repeatedly refuses food, eats only a small range of familiar foods, or seems uninterested in meals, parents can quickly begin to worry that they are doing something wrong.
That worry can easily lead to pressure: asking for one more bite, negotiating, persuading, offering rewards, preparing multiple alternative meals, or constantly monitoring how much a child has eaten. While these responses usually come from a place of care, they can sometimes create even more tension around food.
I created this course to help parents approach picky eating from a different perspective.
As a Child Nutrition Educator, Early Years Development Specialist, and former baby teacher, I have worked with hundreds of children and families throughout my career. As a mother myself, I also understand how emotional feeding your own child can become and how difficult it can be to know when to encourage, when to intervene, and when to simply trust.
Throughout the course, we move beyond simply asking, “How do I get my child to eat?” and begin looking at the bigger picture.
You will learn to understand picky eating and look beyond your child’s behaviour, clarify your role during mealtimes, recognise why pressure can backfire, and become more confident in trusting your child’s appetite.
From there, we move into practical strategies you can use in everyday family life. You will learn how to build pressure-free plates, establish calmer and more predictable mealtime routines, and use connection and positive modelling to support your child’s relationship with food.
Importantly, this course does not define success as getting your child to suddenly eat everything.
Instead, you will learn how to recognise progress without pressure: less conflict around food, greater comfort at the table, more curiosity, increased trust, and a healthier overall mealtime environment.
By the end of the course, you will have a clearer understanding of your child’s eating behaviour and a practical framework for responding to picky eating with greater confidence and less anxiety. The goal is not perfect eating—it is to create an environment where your child can gradually develop a more positive and confident relationship with food, while making mealtimes calmer and more enjoyable for the whole family.
Academic plan
10 video lessons
An introduction to picky eating that helps parents understand how common feeding challenges are and approach them with greater confidence and less guilt.
Explore what picky eating is, why it happens, and the factors that can influence a child’s relationship with food.
Learn to look beyond food refusal and understand what may be driving a child’s behaviour at mealtimes.
Understand the parent’s role in feeding and how to create healthy boundaries while allowing the child to develop autonomy around eating.
Discover why pressure, persuasion, and forcing children to eat can have the opposite effect and learn how to create a more supportive feeding environment.
Learn how to recognise and respect a child’s hunger and fullness cues and support their natural ability to regulate how much they eat.
Learn practical strategies for putting together meals and plates that encourage exploration without creating pressure or conflict.
Build predictable, supportive mealtime routines that help reduce stress and make eating a more positive experience for the whole family.
Explore the importance of connection and parental role modelling in helping children develop a healthier and more positive relationship with food.
Bring the strategies together and learn how to recognise progress, manage expectations, and support long-term change without putting pressure on the child.
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