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Is your child a fussy eater? Do you struggle at mealtimes? In many households, dinner time is more like a battlefield than a time of family bonding. The struggle to get your child to eat properly can be harrowing, and eventually you probably give in. This guide provides tips and advice to ensure your child gets the nutrition they need, without the fuss. It covers all eating issues parents may have with their children from overeating to food intolerance and special dietary needs and discusses how to set up healthy eating habits. Advice is given on how to set the right parameters in place, and the difference leading by example can make. Sympathetically and informally written, this book could change mealtimes in your house forever. Back cover copy: Do you dread mealtimes? If mealtimes often turn into a battleground when you re trying to persuade your child to eat, this book is for you. Written by a trio of experts in parenting, psychology and nutrition, this book recognises the strain and stress many parents go through and offers solutions that really work. Inside find out how to: -Get to the root of eating problems -Practically address each problem -Establish healthy eating habits Packed with realistic suggestions and case studies, this book can put you on a fast track to happy and healthy family mealtimes. Excerpt from Dealing With Difficult Eaters. Copyright 2009. Of all the myriad childrearing issues that we parents face, getting the required quantities of good grub down the necks of our offspring can sometimes seem disproportionately challenging. Who hasn t, at some point, asked themselves concerned questions about the food their children eat? Questions such as: how many sweets are too many? Can they really survive on so little? And, just how long can it be now before scurvy sets in? While feeding kids does come down to a fairly basic equation of good food + hungry child = healthy child, it s rarely that simple in reality. There are all sorts of reasons why children may not, cannot, or will not eat all the things we would like them to, and nourishing your offspring can be a fraught affair from the word go. Even when you ve managed to establish what the good foods and the bad foods are, you must then strive to interest your little darlings in the former while encouraging moderation in the latter. And there s the rub: kids know how much it means to you that they eat the way you want them to. Which often is why they don t. It doesn t necessarily get easier with time, either. That unceremonious regurgitation of those early offerings of baby rice and pureed mango is just the start. Even when they re teenagers, and refusing to come to the table altogether because they d rather just eat microwaved French fries from a box than move an inch away from MySpace, their eating habits are still cause for concern. Truth is, there are some very sound anthropological and psychological reasons for the pressing need to feed we parents feel. Since the dawn of time, we ve been programmed to ensure our children s survival and growth and since those things cannot happen without nourishment, feeding them is automatically on the top of our to-do list. Right from the very start ,moments after they re born and they nestle in for their very first glug of milk, the instinct to nurture and nourish our children is kick-started. You could say it s basic human nature. The desire to get enough food down them and good enough food to ensure their survival is pretty much ingrained in us all. All of which helps explain why there s something profoundly satisfying for a parent in presiding over a successful mealtime whether a small baby hungrily sucking at boob or bottle, or a pre-teen devouring what s on their plate and then asking for more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111655 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
This book really has been a God send to myself and my wife... This is a great little book --Reviewer, The Baby Website

full of useful hints and tips --Reviewer, The Baby Website

The advice is helpful for all children not just for those who are difficult eaters. I would recommend this book to anyone who is experiencing difficult meal times and for those planning to wean shortly.
--Reviewer, The Baby Website

From the Publisher
Of all the myriad childrearing issues that we parents face, getting the required quantities of good grub down the necks of our offspring can sometimes seem disproportionately challenging. Who hasn't, at some point, asked themselves concerned questions about the food their children eat? Questions such as: how many sweets are too many? Can they really survive on so little? And, just how long can it be now before scurvy sets in? While feeding kids does come down to a fairly basic equation of good food + hungry child = healthy child, it s rarely that simple in reality.

There are all sorts of reasons why children may not, cannot, or will not eat all the things we would like them to, and nourishing your offspring can be a fraught affair from the word go. Even when you've managed to establish what the good foods and the bad foods are, you must then strive to interest your little darlings in the former while encouraging moderation in the latter. And there s the rub: kids know how much it means to you that they eat the way you want them to. Which often is why they don't. It doesn't necessarily get easier with time, either. That unceremonious regurgitation of those early offerings of baby rice and pureed mango is just the start.

Even when they re teenagers, and refusing to come to the table altogether because they d rather just eat microwaved French fries from a box than move an inch away from MySpace, their eating habits are still cause for concern. Truth is, there are some very sound anthropological and psychological reasons for the pressing need to feed we parents feel. Since the dawn of time, we've been programmed to ensure our children s survival and growth and since those things cannot happen without nourishment, feeding them is automatically on the top of our to-do list. Right from the very start ,moments after they re born and they nestle in for their very first glug of milk, the instinct to nurture and nourish our children is kick-started. You could say it s basic human nature. The desire to get enough food down them and good enough food to ensure their survival is pretty much ingrained in us all. All of which helps explain why there s something profoundly satisfying for a parent in presiding over a successful mealtime whether a small baby hungrily sucking at boob or bottle, or a pre-teen devouring what s on their plate and then asking for more.

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