Most parents know what a chore it can feel like getting a toddler to actually eat the food that you make them. Brittany Mahomes found herself in the same situation, but now she has a sticky trick that might just help your picky toddler start eating all their food — and it's far from a conventional method! The 28-year-old former professional soccer player shared a post on her social media giving some insight into the way she discovered she could get her 18-month-old son, Bronze, to eat his food.
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Here's her secret.
Apparently all it takes for Brittany's son — whom she shares with NFL player husband Patrick Mahomes — to eat his food is … a sticker.
"I put a sticker on his forehead and he eats every time ," Brittany wrote over a photo posted to her Instagram Stories. "Please tell me how this makes sense ."
Brittany shared photos to prove it.
The mom of two shared snapshots of Bronze to prove her point. In one image, he's munching on cheese and fruit with a dinosaur sticker placed on his forehead. "I'm being dead serious," she said, adding another photo of the toddler eating while wearing a plant sticker.
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This isn't the first time she's had to figure out how to get her son to eat.
Recently, Brittany took to Instagram to request the help of her fellow "mamas or professionals" in breaking a "bad habit" of Bronze's. While on family vacation in Europe, she said, "We started letting him watch TV when eating literally just to keep him chill and not throw fits in public…cause he is still not the best eater and will fight it and throw huge huge huge fits when trying to make him eat." Unfortunately, it soon became a hard-to-break habit. "He will legit not eat a single thing unless he gets a show and then if he does he will eat anything," she shared.
Brittany is open about motherhood.
Brittany does not shy away from sharing about motherhood on her social media platforms. In March 2024, she revealed she fractured her back and urged other moms to "please take care of your pelvic floor" after having kids.
Brittany and Patrick are expecting their third child.
Brittany is currently pregnant with their third child. On Instagram, she shared this pregnancy has been the most difficult. "This pregnancy has been the hardest on me," she wrote via her Instagram Stories on July 23, 2024. "Sickness, exhaustion and now skin!"
