From Picky to Powerful

Author: Maryann Jacobsen
Publisher: Maryann Jacobsen
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Are you tired of fighting your picky eater? Have you tried all the typical advice to no avail? Renowned family nutrition expert Maryann Jacobsen’s transformative approach will set you free. Instead of delivering empty promises that leave you feeling guilty, From Picky to Powerful will change your outlook on picky eating forever. By explaining the scientific reasons why most children become picky in the first place – and the importance of individual differences – you will come to understand your child’s eating behaviors. After reading this book, you’ll learn: The difference between normal and problematic picky eating, so you can seek professional help if needed. How most cases of picky eating are a normal part of the way children develop, with real benefits. That real progress comes from changing your approach, not trying to control your child. Surprisingly simple research-based strategies to help expand your child’s palate and bring peace to your family’s table. How confidence, peace, and freedom come from taking control of what you can, while letting go of the rest.

From Picky to Powerful

Author: Maryann Jacobsen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540820112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Are you tired of fighting your picky eater? Have you tried all the typical advice to no avail? Renowned family nutrition expert Maryann Jacobsen's transformative approach will set you free. Instead of delivering empty promises that leave you feeling guilty, From Picky to Powerful will change your outlook on picky eating forever. By explaining the scientific reasons why most children become picky in the first place - and the importance of individual differences - you will come to understand your child's eating behaviors. After reading this book, you'll learn: * The difference between normal and problematic picky eating, so you can seek professional help if needed. * How most cases of picky eating are a normal part of the way children develop, with real benefits. * That real progress comes from changing your approach, not trying to control your child. * Surprisingly simple research-based strategies to help expand your child's palate and bring peace to your family's table. * How confidence, peace, and freedom come from taking control of what you can, while letting go of the rest.

How to Raise a Mindful Eater

Author: Maryann Jacobsen
Publisher: Maryann Jacobsen
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
Raising a Mindful Eater in a Mindless Eating World Whether your child is obsessed with sweets, a big (or small) eater, or you simply want to avoid future eating problems, you are in the right place. In How to Raise a Mindful Eater, family nutrition expert Maryann Jacobsen shows you step-by-step how to nurture your child’s emerging relationship with food. The book pinpoints 8 Powerful Principles that give you the best shot at raising a mindful eater, someone who listens to their body, eats for nourishment and enjoyment, and naturally eats in moderation. The book will teach you how to: Encourage an Internal Approach to Eating: Discover how to structure meals, set limits, help children eat based on internal cues of hunger and fullness, and pay attention while eating. Balance Food for Nourishment and Enjoyment: Find lasting ways to make nutrition rewarding, sweets less desirable, and eating well a pleasurable experience. Teach Body Appreciation and Self Care: Uncover secrets to teaching body appreciation, dealing with weight issues, combating the media’s Thin Ideal, and nurturing self-care. Ensure Mental and Emotional Happiness: Escape barriers to raising mindful eaters such as stress, poor self-regulation, dealing with difficult feelings, and a lack of connection between parent and child.

Fearless Feeding

Author: Jill Castle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118421558
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
An essential guide to understanding and improving any child's eating habits This comprehensive nutrition guide gives parents the tools for encouraging kids of any age on the path to healthy eating. Pediatric nutrition experts Castle and Jacobsen simplify nutrition information, describe how children's eating habits correspond to their stage of development, provide step-by-step feeding guidance, and show parents how to relax about feeding their kids and get healthy meals on the table fast. Prepares parents by explaining what to expect at different stages of growth, whether it be picky eating, growth spurts or poor body image Helps parents work through problems such as food allergies, nutrient deficiencies and weight management, and identifying if and when they need to seek professional help Empowers parents to take a whole-family approach to feeding including maximizing their own health and well-being Offers fun, easy recipes parents can make for, and with, kids Fearless Feeding translates complicated nutrition advice into simple feeding plans for every age and stage that take the fear out of feeding kids.

The League of Picky Eaters

Author: Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0358375363
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
A hilarious and heartwarming debut about picky eating, finding your people, and standing proud. In Muffuletta, being good at eating is the key to success. French fries and grilled cheese? Beginner food! Haggis and truffles? Delicacies! After failing a school eating test, picky eater Minerva is placed in the lowest eating track of all: Remedial Eating to Change Habits. RETCH class is full of kids with weird personalities and even weirder food preferences. And to make matters worse, Minerva's best friends, in the Gifted and Gourmet class, no longer speak to her. But soon Minerva finds she is not alone in her pickiness, and forms friendships with her new classmates. And together, they find a way to stand up for themselves—picky and proud!

Try New Food

Author: Jill Castle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781393895602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Do you have a picky eater who won't try new foods? Have you tried everything to get your child to eat? Renowned childhood nutrition expert, Jill Castle's Nourished Path to Try New Food® - her systematic and strategic approach to help picky eaters taste, eat and like new foods -- will move you from frustration to optimism, and your picky eater from cautious to adventurous. Instead of telling you to wait it out, or worse, sneak veggies or bribe your child with dessert, Try New Food will walk you through detailed steps to help your child overcome picky eating. Remodel your feeding environment and create a gentle, patient method to best suite your child and learn how to help your picky eater instead of making things worse. You know the advice to "wait it out" doesn't work. You know "getting your child to eat" isn't working either. Try New Food takes a new approach. As a workbook, resource and guide, Try New Food equips you with the latest research and practical tips to help you feed picky eaters with love, patience and healthy food. Castle helps you better understand your child and picky eating, adopt the right mindset and reactions to pickiness, and create an effective plan for helping your child move beyond typical and extreme picky eating behaviors. Based on years of working with picky eaters and her experience as a mom herself, Castle maps out a plan for sensible food options, positive feeding, and effective parenting. After reading this book, you will learn:The root of your child's picky eating The best way to interact with your child around food How to set up a fun, encouraging eating environment The counter-productive interactions (and language) that make picky eating worse (and what to do and say instead) When (and where) to seek more help for extreme picky eaters Castle's practical methods for helping your child progressively try new food How to make mealtime more calm, meaningful and nutritiousMost of all, Try New Food will help you nourish and nurture your picky eater while cultivating healthy eating patterns and a healthy relationship with food.

Stories of Extreme Picky Eating

Author: Jennifer Friedman
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645671933
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Discover the Strategies That Helped the Most Extreme Picky Eaters and That Can Help Your Picky Eater, Too “Is this normal picky eating stuff, or is there more going on here?” It’s a question many parents worry about, and the same question one mom asked Jennifer Friedman in a session about her son Ryder, who struggled to eat more than chicken nuggets and french fries. In Stories of Extreme Picky Eating, Jennifer invites you into her nutritional therapy office to meet real kids struggling with serious food aversions, and learn the strategies that helped them come to eat a wider variety of nutritious foods with more ease. You’ll meet Jackson, an eight-year-old whose diet used to consist entirely of packaged fruit and veggie puree pouches, milk and crackers. You’ll meet Ruby, a bright and bubbly seven-year-old, who ate little more than sugar-laden baked goods and packaged snacks, and who struggled with an extremely sensitive gag reflex. And you’ll meet five more children whose stories are as fascinating to read as they are enlightening to reveal the root causes of picky eating. Backed by cutting-edge research—and including kid-friendly activities and intervention plans—this book will help you understand the complex issues that drive children’s picky eating habits, and implement key strategies that can set them on the path to enjoying a more diverse, nutritious diet.

The Gentle Eating Book

Author: Sarah Ockwell-Smith
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 0349414416
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Most parents worry about their child's eating at some point. Common concerns include picky eating in toddlerhood, sweet cravings and vegetable avoidance in the early school years and dieting and worries about weight in the tween and teenage years. The Gentle Eating Book will help parents to understand their child's eating habits at each age. Starting from birth, the book covers how to start your child off with the most positive approach to eating, whether they are breast or bottle-fed. Parents of older babies will find information about introducing solids, feeding at daycare and when to wean off of breast or formula milk. For parents with toddlers and older children, Sarah includes advice on picky eating and food refusal, overeating, snacking and navigating eating at school, while parents of tweens and teens will find information on dieting, peer pressure, promoting a positive body image and preparing children for future eating independence. At each age The Gentle Eating Book will help parents to feed their child in a manner that will set up positive eating habits for life.

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating

Author: Katja Rowell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626251106
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Having a child who is a picky eater can be both frustrating and worrisome--especially for parents who are concerned their child isn't getting the nutrition they need to grow, stay healthy and strong, and thrive. In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor offers a clinically proven program called STEPS (Supportive Treatment of Eating in Preschoolers) to help parents of children with moderate to severe feeding or selective eating disorders. Parents will learn to support healthy and balanced eating, maintain their child's healthy weight, and end meal-time anxiety once and for all.

Why so Picky?

Author: S.E. Floyd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665534729
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
“Why So Picky?” is what every kid trying to be free from their hovering parent wants to know. This book is about a boy who learns to appreciate the wisdom and daily guidance of his parents by watching the mistakes of his friends.