Mom reveals why letting kids PLAY with their food can help them finish their plate

By William On Mar 16, 2023

A mom of three revealed how to teach the picky eaters in your household to chew the foods they don’t like.

Miriam Sandlerof Miami, Florida, first used social media to empower others and share advice for kids to develop skills through connection and play.

Through her own experiences with parenting, the 31-year-old discovered how to get kids to finish their plate at the dinner table.

Myriam – who has amassed more than two million followers on social media – regularly shares her hacks for getting kids to eat more and has revealed that letting your kids play with the food before dinner makes them more likely to yield.

Myriam Sandler, from Miami, Florida, has revealed how to teach the picky eaters in your household to chew the foods they don’t like

She first took to social media to help empower others and share advice for kids to develop skills through connection and play

Through her own experiences with parenting, the 31-year-old discovered how to get kids to finish their plate at the dinner table

Myriam has revealed that if you let your kids play with the food before dinner, they’re more likely to indulge

The parenting hacks of the century! How a mom’s tips can get your kids to eat foods they don’t like AND remove stains

How to get your kids to eat foods they don’t like

Use food coloring to paint the fun food colors.

Let them play with it before dinner until they are used to seeing the food on their plate.

How to remove permanent marker drawings from walls and furniture

Spray the wall with factor 100 SPF sunblock and use a cloth to wipe away the stain.

Repeat until the stain is gone.

Marker will disappear without taking the paint off.

How to get play slime out of clothes Soak it in warm water with white vinegar. Watch the slime dissolve!

Then wash as normal.

How to bring the pen back to life without the lid on

To revive washable felt tip pens that have dried out because the cap came off, simply pour water into the cap.

Put it back on the pen, let the pen sit on the bottom for a few hours, without the lid, and it will be like a brand new felt tip pen.

How do you make colorful rice that will keep for years?

Measure out one cup of dry rice for every tablespoon of white vinegar.

Add to a plastic bag and add a few drops of food coloring. Shake well and place to dry on a flat tray lined with parchment/wax paper for children to play with.

How to get chalk marks off walls

Use window/glass cleaner and scrub with a cloth.

Repeat until the crayon is gone.

Myriam’s own journey began when her first child, Nicole, turned one and drank only milk and refused to eat solid food.

The influencer, who is also mum to Emma, five, and 17-month-old Ariana, who she shares with Marc, 37, claims doctors dismissed her concerns and simply said her daughter was still growing.

So she started looking for a solution herself.

When she learned that her daughter was experiencing texture sensitivity, she tried to change her child’s perception of the food.

She explained that by adding food coloring and letting her kids play with their food before dinner, they started seeing it as fun.

She said, “Having worked with children with ADD and ADHD, I knew that sensory play was an effective way to introduce textures and engage a child.

“I knew her favorite texture was water because she loved to bathe, so I started playing with the water based and slowly introduced new textures.

“I made the water blue with food coloring and added some toy ducks to make it into a pond.”

“I changed the textures every three to four days to keep the game interesting and fresh.

“I made up recipes in my kitchen, made toy doughs and slimes that were edible, and colorful spaghetti so she could get used to the texture while playing, rather than at the dinner table.”

In the end, Myriam’s hard work started to pay off.

She said, “Babies put everything in their mouths, so she quickly got used to these textures and by the time she got to the table, she would try real spaghetti and really enjoy it.”

Within a few months, Nicole was eating all sorts of foods, including salmon and quinoa.

Myriam said: ‘We were very happy to get out of this challenging phase.

“Nicole enjoyed mealtime, which meant we all started eating together as a family.”

Empowered by her victory as a parent, Myriam started Mothercould, a website where she shared her recipes and ideas for sensory play through videos she made in her own kitchen.

She said: ‘Sensory play will captivate a child’s imagination for a long time because they use all of their senses and it’s an open-ended game.

“The moment I realized that the sensory play was working for my daughter was my “mom could” moment.”

Myriam commented that she was glad she stuck to her belly as she tried to figure out how to get her child to eat.

Myriam’s own journey began when her first child, Nicole, turned one and drank only milk and refused to eat solid food

When she learned that her daughter was experiencing texture sensitivity, she tried to change her child’s perception of the food

She explained that adding food coloring and letting her kids play with their food before dinner helped them see it as fun

‘We literally tried all kinds of solids; yogurt, soups, baby food, it didn’t matter,’ the mother said.

“She would refuse it all. It was so stressful.

“Even though Nicole was healthy, we were so concerned that she wasn’t eating and refused to even touch the food.”

Her degree in psychology and experience helping children with disabilities helped her realize that her daughter was experiencing texture sensitivity.

Using her techniques, the mother exposed her daughter to different textures for months until it worked.

The mom then went on a mission to share other parenting hacks.

She has helped parents take markers off walls, remove slime from clothes, and even make colorful rice.