Feeding with Love and Good Sense: 18 Months through 6 Years
Copyright © 2014 by Ellyn Satter
Kelcy Press
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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feeding with Love and Good Sense: 18 Months through 6 Years
1. Parenting. Infants and toddlers. 2. Feeding. 3. The family and family meals. 4. Children. Child development.
Developmental editor, Nancy Pekar
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Feeding with Love and Good Sense: The First 2 Years
Ellyn Satter is the go-to authority about raising healthy children who are a joy to feed. In this booklet, the second in the Feeding with Love and Good Sense series, Satter advises you about how to feed your child in words and pictures, and demonstrates why to do it with feeding stories.
Ellyn Satter is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Family Therapist. Says Satter, “This booklet and the materials below are based on my decades-long adventures in feeding and eating with parents, children, families, adults, and the caring professionals who work with them.”
Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense: A warm, supportive, and entertaining book about wise, loving, and tuned-in feeding. Helps you understand your child and feed well from birth through preschool.
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family: How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook: When the joy goes out of eating, nutrition suffers. The secret of raising a healthy eater is to love good food, enjoy eating, and teach your child to do the same.
Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming: If you are determined to have a slim child, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you are willing to do an excellent job with feeding and to let your child grow up with the body that is right for him or her, read on.
Ellyn Satter’s Feeding with Love and Good Sense II Videos: Close-up, fascinating footage of real parents and real children in their homes in actual feeding situations. Shows what works and what doesn’t with feeding.
Feeding with Love and Good Sense: The First Two Years: This brief, beautiful, engaging booklet gets today’s busy parents off to a good and authoritative start with feeding.
www.ellynsatterinstitute.org: Loads of free stuff about how to feed, how to eat, parents’ success stories, and articles. Shopping for Ellyn Satter’s books, other booklets in this series
Table of Contents
1. Raise a healthy child who is a joy to feed
You can have enjoyable, harmonious meals. Your child can be healthy, feel good about eating, and behave well around food.
2. Follow the division of responsibility
To raise a healthy child who eats and grows well, do your jobs with feeding and parenting, then trust your child to do her jobs with eating, moving, and growing.
3. Understand your child’s development
Consider the toddler, the preschooler, and the school-age child. Being able to recognize stages in development and understand temperament lets you trust and enjoy your child and parent in the best way.
4. How to feed your child
Have family-friendly meals and sit-down snacks. The toddler’s eating is quirky, the preschooler’s eating is surprising, and the school-age child’s eating skills start to show. Look forward to greater mealtime tranquility as your child gets older.
5. What to feed your family
You are now feeding a family and including your child in family meals. You are no longer just feeding your child.
6. Solve feeding problems
Consider the picky eater, the child who doesn’t eat meals and then begs for food, the large child, the small child, the child who doesn’t eat much, the child who doesn’t eat vegetables or drink milk, or the child with special needs.
7. What you have learned
Feeding is parenting in all ways. You have to do your jobs, but then you have to let go. Throughout the growing-up years, maintain a division of responsibility in feeding.
Dedication: This booklet is dedicated to you, the parent, and all the caring adults who are helping feed your child with love and good sense.
A message from Ellyn Satter
By the time your child is a toddler, you will have navigated a lot of pitfalls with respect to your child’s learning to eat grown-up food. Consider these scenarios: