breaking food jags

Breaking Food JagsLeila MoinpourFall 2012

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.

Priority Mapping

Target Behavior

Get parent to mix in weekly target food

into child’s meal each day.

SEQENCING BEHAVIORS

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

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.

Next Time

Will test with a different approach to making the task of choosing and buying the target

food easier to do