Apr 14, 2019 | Eating, Family meals, Food insecsurity
How frequently do you worry about having money for food? Do you go hungry in order to provide for your children? Your concern for them is impressive. However, children know you are doing it, and they feel bad about it. Why not consider some surprising strategies that...
Feb 23, 2019 | Family meals
How you feed your child differs from one developmental stage to the next. Initially you feed from the breast or from a bottle, holding your infant close to you. Their task is to suck, swallow and breathe whilst you support their body in your arms. Once they start...
Nov 25, 2018 | Division of Responsibility in Feeding, Family meals, Medication
Parents whose children who are being treated with medication for ADHD have particular feeding challenges. The medication spoils children’s appetites, children eat poorly, and parents worry that their child’s growth will be stunted. Often, parents and their children...
Nov 7, 2018 | Feeding, Nutrition
The bad press surrounding saturated fat has mostly harmed the reputation and enjoyment of milk and milk products, since the early 1970s. Not all saturated fat is bad However, the evidence for branding saturated fat in dairy foods as “bad”, was never too strong to...
Sep 5, 2018 | Baby, Feeding
Just when you start to relax, now comes word that you have to be careful not to overfeed your baby! Always ready to pack for a guilt trip, having grownup children doesn’t save us from second-guessing what we did back then! Not to worry! Relaxing and having good times...
Jun 24, 2018 | Division of Responsibility in Feeding, Feeding, Feeding dynamics, Obesity
These days, it’s common for researchers to conclude that “deficits” in children are what cause obesity. That is, there is something wrong with the child that leads to obesity. Self-control, generally defined as the ability to delay gratification, is a case in point....
May 10, 2018 | Division of Responsibility in Feeding, Feeding dynamics, Trust, Uncategorized
Recently, I was doing an assessment in my clinical practice and reviewed a video of a family meal – Mum, Dad and their four-year-old daughter. The meal lasted 58 minutes! How could a four-year-old sit at the table for that long, I hear you ask. Well, she did a pretty...
Apr 9, 2018 | Eating Competence, Family meals
Families always eat, but, in the words of a Minneapolis parent addressing the challenges of family dinner, “We don’t always sit down and eat together if it’s fast food, like we would if it was home cooked.” The same research group found that families are more likely...
Mar 23, 2018 | Adolescent, Child, Family meals
Some parents feel that their child(ren) stay at the table forever! Parents say they are following the Division of Responsibility™ and worry that setting a time limit will be restricting or somehow interfering with their child doing his jobs with eating. There are...
Mar 9, 2018 | Eating, Family meals
This is a common dilemma: What to do when kids finish eating their meal, but others in the family are still eating? Firstly, it’s important to note that it can be pretty boring for a young child to stay seated at the table once they have finished eating. Here is...
