Family Meals Focus
The Ellyn Satter Institute Newsletter
Family Meals Focus
Explore how to eat, how to feed, how to address picky eating, overweight, underweight and special needs. Get tips on coping with interference from well meaning family, doctors, and teachers. Learn how to reconcile what you want to eat with what you are supposed to eat! It is all here in these almost 10 years of Family Meals Focus monthly newsletters.
These are written for the public as well as professionals, with some editions being slanted heavily one way, some another. Some get quoted again and again, others sank with hardly a ripple. The index tells you the range of topics. We will still publish a FMF newsletter from time to time: sign up for it here. But now, look for our new ESI blog, Eat and feed with joy.
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Index of topics: Family Meals Focus Newsletter
Baby/infant feeding, growth, nutrition
- Baby-led weaning
- Big babies do not become obese
- Big baby, big parents: No problem!
- Breastfeeding hullabaloo
- Breastfeeding in the second year and beyond
- Catchup growth: Normal for premature babies
- Division of responsibility in feeding works for special needs
- Early infant weight gain, obesity, and adult disease
- Feeding in your baby’s first year
- How to feed your child: birth through adolescence
- Pregnancy weight gain won’t make your baby fat
- Pureed food in pouches: boon or bane?
Child and adult weight issues
- Big babies do not become obese
- Big baby, big parents: No problem!
- Breastfeeding hullabaloo
- Catchup growth: Normal for premature babies
- Children and weight: Are current guidelines helpful? Do they do harm?
- Children and weight: Helping without harming
- Children who are obsessed with food
- Countywide obesity prevention – speaking with one voice
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Dieting and mental health
- Do children lose the ability to self-regulate?
- Doctors and weight: Helping without harming
- Early infant weight gain, obesity, and adult disease
- Eating competence: internal regulation
- Food restriction in disguise
- Giving children autonomy with eating: what it is and isn’t
- Helping without harming with child overweight
- Holiday eating success story
- Labeling overweight children as obese
- Overweight kids are not gluttons
- Preschooler who gained too much weight
- Pregnancy: 1 Weight gain
- Pregnancy: 2 The weight dilemma
- Pregnancy: 3 Weight restriction, harming without helping
- Schools are not weight-loss camps
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Size acceptance
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- Talking with your child about weight
- Toddlers who “can’t get filled up”
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- Versions of internally regulated eating
Child feeding, growth, nutrition
- Addressing child picky eating
- Adoptive and foster child feeding problems
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement, ”Lipid screening and cardiovascular disease in children”
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Child on psychotropic medication
- Children and weight: Are current guidelines helpful? Do they do harm?
- Children and weight: Helping without harming
- Children who are obsessed with food
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Do children lose the ability to self-regulate?
- Food restriction in disguise
- Fruit and vegetable agenda: Do we really need numbers?
- Giving children autonomy with eating: what it is and isn’t
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Moves and counter-moves with feeding your child
- Nurturing children at school
- Nutriendo a los Niños en la Escuela
- Overweight kids are not gluttons
- Preschooler who gained too much weight
- Review, The Two Bite Club
- sDOR.2-6yTM validation transforms nutrition intervention
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Sticky topic of Halloween candy
- Toddlers who “can’t get filled up”
- Toddler feeding: A series of unfortunate events
- Toddler feeding: the child who won’t eat table food
- Toddler feeding: What’s the big deal?
- Using “forbidden” food
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
Clinical care, education, food selection
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement, ”Lipid screening and cardiovascular disease in children”
- Applying the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding in a Group Setting
- Are we teaching our children conflict and anxiety about food?
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Collective impact: multidisciplinary, collaborative practice
- Control vs trust in nutrition education
- Counseling with the Satter Eating Competence Model
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Cultural issues in feeding
- Dieting and mental health
- Division of responsibility in feeding works for special needs
- Do children lose the ability to self-regulate?
- Doctors and weight: Helping without harming
- Does following the division of responsibility mean you have to starve children to make them eat?
- Does the division of responsibility in feeding work in clinical care?
- Eating competence and nutrition facts labels
- Eating Competence: a Game Changer for Your Nutrition Practice
- Eating competence: food acceptance
- Feeding neglected children mandates division of responsibility in feeding
- Fruit and vegetable agenda: Do we really need numbers?
- Food restriction in disguise
- Hierarchy of food need
- Holiday eating success story
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Picky eating in adults: How to help
- Picky eating: Born or made?
- Picky eating: The adult dilemma
- Pregnancy: 1 Weight gain
- Pregnancy: 2 The weight dilemma
- Pregnancy: 3 Weight restriction, harming without helping
- Pregnancy: 4 The joy of eating
- Pregnancy: 5 Weight gain won’t make your baby fat
- Setting the stage for telling parents assessment results
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Size acceptance
- Talking with your child about weight
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- Using “forbidden” food
- Versions of internally regulated eating
- What does eating competence research say about eating disorders
Division of responsibility in feeding
- Feeding your adolescent
- Feeding in your baby’s first year
- Feeding is parenting
- Feeding neglected children mandates division of responsibility in feeding
- Feeding pressure on all sides
- Feeding toddlers on the go
- Food restriction in disguise
- Giving children autonomy with eating: what it is and isn’t
- How to feed your child: birth through adolescence
- How to get your child to eat
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Medication and the division of responsibility in feeding
- Moves and counter-moves with feeding your child
Eating competence
- Are you ready to stop feeling bad about your eating?
- Control vs trust in nutrition education
- Counseling with the Satter Eating Competence Model
- Counterfeit permission
- Eat what you like and be healthy!
- ecSatter gets high marks for implementing the Dietary Guidelines
- Eating Competence: A game changer in your nutrition practice
- Eating competence and nutrition facts labels
- Eating competence
- Eating competence in action: Season’s eatings
- Eating competence: Context-management skills
- Eating competence: Eating attitudes
- Eating competence: food acceptance
- Eating competence: Holiday eating in the time of COVID
- Eating competence: internal regulation
- Eating competence: putting it all together
- Taste of eating competence for those struggling with eating
- Eating, feeding . . . and life
- Emotional eating
- Family meals are essential
- Hierarchy of food need
- Holiday eating success story
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Picky eating in adults: How to help
- Picky eating: Born or made?
- Picky eating: The adult dilemma
- Practicing nutritional judo
- Pregnancy: 1 Weight gain
- Pregnancy: 2 The weight dilemma
- Pregnancy: 3 Weight restriction, harming without helping
- Pregnancy: 4 The joy of eating
- Pregnancy: 5 Weight gain won’t make your baby fat
- Preventing holiday weight gain
- Size acceptance
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- Using “forbidden” food
- Versions of internally regulated eating
- What does eating competence research say about eating disorders
Eating disorders
- Addressing the epidemic of distorted eating
- Are we teaching our children conflict and anxiety about food?
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Child on psychotropic medication
- Children who are obsessed with food
- Counseling with the Satter Eating Competence Model
- Dieting and mental health
- Eating competence
- Emotional eating
- Feeding is parenting
- Feeding your adolescent
- Hierarchy of food need
- Holiday eating success story
- Picky eating in adults: How to help
- Pregnancy: The weight dilemma
- Setting the stage for telling parents assessment results
- Size acceptance
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- Taste of eating competence for those struggling with eating
- Toddlers who “can’t get filled up”
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- Versions of internally regulated eating
- What does eating competence research say about eating disorders
Family meals and snacks
- Celebrate National Family Day with a family dinner
- Eating competence
- Eating competence: Context-management skills
- Taste of eating competence for those struggling with eating
- Family meals are essential
- Family meals in restaurants
- Family meals mean love and security
- Family meals: Getting the meal habit
- Family meals: Let’s be realistic
- Family-style meals
- Feeding toddlers on the go
- Feeding your adolescent
- Food restriction in disguise
- Fruit and vegetable agenda: Do we really need numbers?
- How to feed your child: birth through adolescence
- How to get your child to eat
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Moves and counter-moves with feeding your child
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you follow MyPlate?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
General interest
Nutrition policy
- 2023 AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines for Child Obesity: A Weight-Neutral Perspective
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement, ”Lipid screening and cardiovascular disease in children”
- Child overweight: are current guidelines helpful? do they do harm?
- Dietary Guidelines 2010 and eating competence
- Eat what you like and be healthy!
- Eating competence and nutrition facts labels
- Eating competence
- ecSatter gets high marks for implementing the Dietary Guidelines
- Labeling overweight children as obese
- Pregnancy: The weight dilemma
- Schools are not weight-loss camps
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you follow MyPlate?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- USDA FNS child feeding policies and recommendations: what is the role for the division of responsibility in feeding?
School and community
- Are we teaching our children conflict and anxiety about food?
- Celebrate National Family Day with a family dinner
- Collective impact: multidisciplinary, collaborative practice
- Countywide obesity prevention – speaking with one voice
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Cultural issues in feeding
- Feeding is parenting
- Nurturing children at school
- Nutriendo a los Niños en la Escuela
- School nutrition horror stories
- Schools are not weight-loss camps
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- USDA FNS child feeding policies and recommendations: what is the role for the division of responsibility in feeding?
Special needs
- Adoptive and foster child feeding problems
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Catchup growth: Normal for premature babies
- Division of responsibility in feeding works for special needs
- Does following the division of responsibility mean you have to starve children to make them eat?
- Does the division of responsibility in feeding work in clinical care?
- Feeding neglected children mandates division of responsibility in feeding
- Medication and the division of responsibility in feeding
- Picky eating: Born or made?
Table of contents: Family Meals Focus Newsletter
- 2023 AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines for Child Obesity: A Weight-Neutral Perspective
- Addressing child picky eating
- Addressing the epidemic of dysfunctional eating
- Adoptive and foster child feeding problems
- Advocating change: Be for what you believe in
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement, ”Lipid screening and cardiovascular disease in children”
- Applying the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding in a Group Setting
- Are you ready to stop feeling bad about your eating?
- Are we teaching our children conflict and anxiety about food?
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Baby-led weaning
- Big babies do not become obese
- Big baby, big parents: No problem!
- Breastfeeding hullabaloo
- Breastfeeding in the second year and beyond
- Catchup growth: Normal for premature babies
- Celebrate National Family Day with a family dinner
- Child on psychotropic medication
- Child and weight: Are current guidelines helpful? Do they do harm?
- Children and weight: How to help without harming
- Children who are obsessed with food
- Children Who Have Barriers to Eating
- Collective impact: multidisciplinary, collaborative practice
- Control vs trust in nutrition education
- Counseling with the Satter Eating Competence Model
- Counterfeit permission
- Countywide obesity prevention – speaking with one voice
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- COVID-19 has left even more hungry
- Cultural issues in feeding
- Dietary Guidelines 2010 and eating competence
- Dieting and mental health
- Division of responsibility in feeding works for special needs
- Doctors and weight: Helping without harming
- Do children lose the ability to self-regulate?
- Does the division of responsibility in feeding work in clinical care?
- Early infant weight gain, obesity, and adult disease
- Eat what you like and be healthy!
- Eating Competence: a Game Changer for Your Nutrition Practice
- Eating competence and nutrition facts labels
- Eating competence
- Eating competence in action: Season’s eatings
- Eating competence: Context-management skills
- Eating competence: Eating attitudes
- Eating competence: food acceptance
- Eating Competence: Holiday eating in the time of COVID
- Applying the Satter Eating Competence Model to Regulation of Food Intake
- Eating competence: putting it all together
- ecSatter and ecSI 2.0 Give insight on Eating Disorders
- ecSatter gets high marks for implementing the Dietary Guidelines
- Eating, feeding . . . and life
- Edie’s stories
- Emotional eating
- Family meals are essential
- Family meals in restaurants
- Family meals mean love and security
- Family meals: Getting the meal habit
- Family meals: Let’s be realistic
- Family meals: Stuff to know
- Feeding in your baby’s first year
- Feeding is parenting
- Feeding neglected children mandates division of responsibility in feeding
- Feeding pressure on all sides
- Feeding toddlers on the go
- Feeding your adolescent
- Food restriction in disguise
- Fruit and vegetable agenda: Do we really need numbers?
- Giving children autonomy with eating: what it is and isn’t
- Helping without harming with child overweight
- Hierarchy of food need
- Holiday eating in the time of COVID
- Keeping the Joy in Holiday Eating
- How to Eat addresses eating chaos
- How to feed your child: birth through adolescence
- How to get your child to eat
- Labeling overweight children as obese
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweets, chips, sodas
- Medication and the division of responsibility in feeding
- Moves and counter-moves with feeding your child
- Nurturing children at school
- Nutriendo a los Niños en la Escuela
- Overweight kids are not gluttons
- Out of Africa
- Picky eating in adults: How to help
- Picky eating: The adult dilemma
- Practicing nutritional judo
- Prairie as a life metaphor
- Preschooler who gained too much weight
- Pregnancy: 1 Weight gain
- Pregnancy: 2 The weight dilemma
- Pregnancy: 3 Weight restriction, harming without helping
- Pregnancy: 4 The joy of eating
- Pregnancy: 5 Weight gain won’t make your baby fat
- Preventing holiday weight gain
- Pureed food in pouches: boon or bane?
- Regional artists, pellagra and traditional wisdom
- Review, The Two Bite Club
- School nutrition horror stories
- Schools are not weight-loss camps
- sDOR.2-6yTM validation transforms nutrition intervention
- Setting the stage for telling parents assessment results
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you follow MyPlate?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Size acceptance
- Sticky topic of Halloween candy
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- Talking with your child about weight
- Taste of eating competence for those struggling with eating
- Toddler who “can’t get filled up”
- Toddler feeding: A series of unfortunate events
- Toddler feeding: the child who won’t eat table food
- Toddler feeding: What’s the big deal?
- Tour the ESI website!
- Troubleshooting with the division of responsibility
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- USDA FNS child feeding policies and recommendations: what is the role for the division of responsibility in feeding?
- Using “forbidden” food
- Fruit and Vegetable agenda: Do we really need numbers?
- Versions of internally regulated eating
- What does eating competence research say about eating disorders
- You are your own food guide