What Should Children Eat? In our heightened concern with healthy food and eating practices, looking at how our children relate to food makes sense. What encourages better choices, what instills too much fear?
Talking to Kids About Food
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More on Feeding Kids
From time to time Eat Sanely highlights the ways that home cooking helps our health, our weight, our "eating sanity" overall. The following link came to my attention recently: "30 of the Best Blogs with Healthy Breakfast Recipes for the Whole Family". Starting...
On Building Healthy Eating Habits
Once again, I direct my readers' attention to an article of interest: How to Promote Healthy Eating Habits in Young Children. Of course, we're always working on developing and keeping up our own good habits....but how much easier when they're solid to start with!...
Avoiding Emotional Overeating When Your Kids Are Driving You Crazy….
I recently found this post on the LiveInNanny blog. Its author echoes many of the points often made here, but with a specific focus on the overeating that follows frustrating times with kids. I hope some of you find it helpful!...
HELPING KIDS EAT HEALTHILY–AND WITHOUT FEAR
I was again interviewed by the London Sunday Times, this time about helping to foster healthy attitudes in kids about eating and weight--and about not fostering fear and worry. This is a complicated issue in our times. Here is the link to the article, "But If I Eat...
MORE ON KIDS AND WEIGHT
A version of "Talking to Kids About Weight" appeared on the Psychology Today blog Thin From Within (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within) One commentor sent information on a DVD, tip cards, discussion strategies, etc. available for parents to talk to...
TALKING TO KIDS ABOUT WEIGHT
“But it’s so yummy, mummy…” begins an article by Eleanor Mills on the daunting task of steering kids toward healthy food and weight. Mills explores, in the London Sunday Times and on her Fat Kittens blog (http://www.fattkittens.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/), how best to...