Speaking of Aarti and her kids, the former CNN producer often “has the same tug of war that you do” when it comes to getting her daughters to eat their vegetables, as she wrote on her blog in 2019. Her tips? Eat “as many vegetables as you can muster” while you’re pregnant, get your kids to eat just one bite of their vegetables until they develop the taste for them, find the veggies that your kids get excited about, explain the nutritional benefit of healthy food, and then “give them perspective.”

“We try to explain that there are lots of people in the world who either don’t get to choose what they eat, or don’t get to eat at all!” she blogged, explaining that last point. “This lesson has really stuck with them, and it shows up in their actions at the dinner table, and super sweetly, when we pray at night, they’ll often pray for people who don’t have homes or food or families. Perspective can help weather anything… even a bowl of spinach.”