What I Wish I'd Known about Kids and Veggies

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One of the things I’ve been working towards over the past year is more separation between my personal life online and my professional online life. After getting divorced and settling into our new routine, I realized I had an opportunity to kind of reset other areas of my life.

(Related Read: The Year I Lost My Appetite)

I knew I was approaching social media burn out and I could suddenly see that I was exhausted from years of spending so much time each day thinking about which moments from my day would make “engaging content”. (This relates to kids and vegetables, stick with me for a minute!)

Outside of the content that I make specifically to share online, I wanted to stop performing my life in anyway. I wanted the freedom to simply live it in each moment.

This also means that I’ve drastically reduced the amount of time I personally use social media apps. And I have really filtered the content I see to remove anything that makes me feel badly about food, eating, or feeding my kids.

Because of this new perspective, my ability to spot misleading kid food content when it does pop up in my feed is much improved. (Full disclosure: I am absolutely not perfect and I am sure I could find some of my own content that is imperfect!) I’ve noticed that there are a few common ways people and brands on the internet present and talk about kid food—particularly about vegetables—that seems to make us parents feel like there’s a problem we have to immediately solve.

It’s the content that…

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