If mealtime is stressing you out, your child feels the same too! Consider the following tips for parents to help your family have a more relaxing mealtime experience.
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When your child decides not to eat, it is not because you need to try harder at making the meal more fun. Consider these common pitfalls that may affect your child’s appetite…
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If you tell have been telling your child to eat more vegetables and it did not work, it won’t make a difference if the dietitian says the same thing. Parents - you are a very important role model. Don’t tell them what to eat... show them!
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Does your child eat a whole bunch of fruits but won't touch the vegetables? Fruits have plenty of fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. So relax mama... Consider these suggestions for positively dealing with your picky eater.
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Efforts to promote exclusive breastfeeding have led to a culture of formula-shaming that very few of us talk about. And if you do happen to speak up about formula-shaming, you risk being seen as someone who isn’t pro-breastfeeding. Read more…
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Are you nervous about feeding your kid sweets? Feel like it’s a struggle with your kid constantly asking for sweets? Kids' minds do not work like adults. When you make kids "earn" their sweets, you give sweets more power and kids obsess over them more. Read more...
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Parents want their children to grow up healthy. Somehow, that translates to eating the greens on their plates. Parents are overjoyed when their kids happily chomp on the broccoli or salad. We tend to worry when the child is selective about which vegetable he or she will eat. When kids are picky with their vegetables, our parental instincts kick in and we resort to these tactics…
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My approach is guided by Ellyn Satter's Division of responsibility in feeding (sDOR), a recognized model as best practice for feeding children from infancy to adolescence by The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and The American Academy of Pediatrics. Ellyn Satter is a Registered Dietitian and a family therapist. Her combined expertise in both fields makes her an authoritative figure in matters related to feeding children. Read more…
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