The Good Parenting Food Guide
J Ogden
- 25 april 2014
- 9781118709375
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The Good Parenting Food Guide offers straightforward advice for how to encourage children to develop a healthy, unproblematic approach to eating.
Why is feeding a child so difficult? This book answers a question that many parents find themselves asking on a daily basis. Hunger is a basic biological drive and eating should be an easy and delicious part of family life. Too often, it is anything but that. Based on 25 years of research into eating behavior, Jane Ogden offers straightforward advice for how to encourage children to develop a healthy, unproblematic approach to eating from birth through young adulthood.
The book describes current theory and research and turns this into practical tips for use in every day family life. It covers how children learn to like food, how habits are formed and can be changed, what children should be eating and how this can be helped to happen without making food into an issue. She discusses common problems that parents face such as picky eating, under-eating, over eating, obesity, eating disorders and how to deal with a child who thinks they are fat. She also provides practical tips and solutions and some simple ways to feed a family a healthy diet.
With insightful advice for one of the most complicated adventures in parenting, this guide is a must-have for any parent who wants their child’s relationship with food to thrive.
The Good Parenting Food Guide offers straightforward advice for how to encourage children to develop a healthy, unproblematic approach to eating.
- Explores key aspects of children’s eating behavior, including how children learn to like food, the role of food in their life and how habits are formed and can be changed
- Discusses common problems with children’s diets, including picky eating, under-eating, overeating, obesity, eating disorders and how to deal with a child who is critical of how they look
- Turns current research and data into practical tips
- Filled with practical solutions, take home points, drawings, and photos
- Mumsnet Blue Badge Award Winner