Your Child's Weight: Helping without Harming [Paperback] Review

I stumbled on this book while searching for family meal plans.What a revelation.We have one child who we have worried over for years regarding her eating habits and high weight.My husband actually picked up this book and read it cover to cover and, uncharacteristically, led the way in a radical change about how we think about meals and food in our household.This book is full of common sense for families who may be struggling with a child's weight problem.The basic idea is so ZEN--stop controlling, stop struggling, stop worrying and you change the very nature of the problem.Now we're no longer trapped in the double standard of telling one kid to stop eating and the other to finish her food.We're seeing our picky 3 year old actually grab a carrot on his own!!My overeater pushes back from the table when she's full and doesn't crouch over her plate like a famished animal.My middle child is learning to sit in her chair and enjoy the food that is available instead of asking for alternate meals.My husband and I actually have time to catch up with the kids. And I have been able to look at my own eating patterns (and their origins) in a new way.This is a profoundly wise book and I'm so grateful to have discovered it.

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As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.

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