Articles tagged with: emotional eating
This is a follow-up to “Are Your Kids Telling The Truth About What They Eat?“
When my daughter was about 4 years old I discovered the Eating-Honesty Bind.
I had sweetened the pot of a boring morning spent running errands by promising my daughter that I would take her for an ice cream when we were done…
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Most parents teach their kids to lie about food and eating. Not intentionally, of course.
No one wakes up one morning and says, “Right, it’s time to turn Lucy into a liar.” But our cultural obsession with nutrition puts enormous pressure on parents to get the right nutrients into their kids, and that pressure makes most parents resort to a host of tactics that don’t…
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When a child eats to “feed” a feeling (sadness, happiness, worry, frustration, boredom, etc.) instead of to relieve hunger, they are in the midst of “emotional eating.” It is natural for eating and emotions to become connected to a certain degree, but if emotions prompt a child to make poor food choices, or eat too much or too little, long-lasting problems can ensue.
Teach kids how to talk about feeling…
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As we are all trying to be healthier, let’s take a moment to breathe and be aware of all that is around us. In today’s world with all of our societal pressures and fast paced living, much of our eating happens automatically. We often don’t notice how much food is on our plate or how much we have just eaten. Instead much of what we eat is driven by external…
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If you read a lot online about kids and eating, you know that nearly every parenting website and mommy food blogger is talking about picky eating. We are too. Strategies to get reluctant kids to eat a variety of foods—plenty of vegetables in particular —is a very popular parenting topic among parents and experts these days. It’s more than understandable if your automatically think, ”yep, I’ve a picky eater too”…
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This is part 2 of Dr. Dina Rose’s elaboration on when to feed kids. In part 1, she explains what parents should think about before deciding between feeding on schedule and feeding on demand – or a hybrid between the two, as well as what should be your goal.
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Below I’ve listed some pros and cons for each strategy to help you choose. But let me point…
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I’ll cut to the chase: it doesn’t matter.
All right, it does kind of matter. (I’ll get to that in a minute.) First, though, it’s important to remember that the primary goal is to teach kids how to eat right. In that regard, whether or not you feed your kids on a schedule is simply a question of what vehicle will best help you teach the right lessons.
In this…
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What kids really mean when they say, “I’m hungry”
Infants only eat when they’re hungry. And if they overeat at one meal, they under-eat at their next feeding to compensate. But pretty early in life, this sensible instinct somehow gets lost. Toddlers already model their eating after siblings, peers, what they see on TV and, oh yes, YOU. This wonderfully intuitive relation between belly and brain gets broken in…
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We often talk about healthy eating habits here. But what can and should parents really expect from their children? Let’s do a reality check.
As our house nutritionist Lisa Lanzano says, one cookie is not going to undo the good nutrition kids get regularly. Neither will one trip to McDonald’s. Maybe what we are really saying here is that we are giving you permission to give yourself a…
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