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Eating is a deeply personal experience, and a complex one for early years practitioners when it comes to ensuring that young children eat well, enjoy food and have a healthy and nutritious diet.
Young children can be acutely sensitive and easily overwhelmed by the tastes, smells and textures of food. Each child is unique and brings to their setting tastes acquired from home and from their cultural and religious backgrounds. Some may have dietary requirements due to allergies or intolerances which, if overlooked, can have serious consequences.
By age three, children are also likely to be aware of adults’ expectations of what and how they should eat. This can be an unwelcome pressure that can take away the pleasure to be gained from eating.
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