The document discusses encouraging parents of picky eaters aged 2-3 to expose their children to new healthy foods at least 5-10 times. Studies show this repetition can help children overcome their fear of new foods and eventually like the foods. It recommends parents mix a weekly target food into their child's meals each day. An initial challenge was getting parents informed on healthy eating benefits through a video. For parents who watched, selecting a single weekly target food proved too difficult, causing some to stop the process. Future tests may make choosing the target food easier.

1. Breaking Food Jags
Leila Moinpour
Fall 2012

2. Get parents of picky 2-3 year old eaters to expose their
children to new healthy foods with at least 5-10
repetitions because studies show that the many
children tend to have a fear of new foods and this
exposure will encourage your child to eventually taste
and like the foods given.

3. Priority Mapping

4. Target Behavior
Get parent to mix in weekly target food
into child’s meal each day.

5. SEQENCING BEHAVIORS

6. Trials
• The first challenge was to get the parents informed
about the power of healthy eating habits for their
child.
• Sent out emails to parents of 2-3 year old kids
with video to mimic concept behind manual and
classroom
• http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

7. Trials
For the parents who watched the video
• How to select the target food for the week
became an obstacle, making the task too
difficult to accomplish, so a few parents stopped
after gaining information about what foods were
healthy.

8. Next Time
Will test with a different approach to making the task
of choosing and buying the target food easier to
do