johannacormack
Is anxiety behind your child’s eating problems?
Food-related anxiety is a reallly common cause of feeding problems. In this post, I discuss the research on anxiety and eating. Read to the end for my free guide to helping your food-anxious child.
‘Picky Eating’: what does progress look like?
Have you ever had that sinking feeling that whatever you do, nothing seems to make any difference to your child’s fussy eating? Maybe it’s time to redefine success.
When is it time to get your picky eater specialist help?
‘Picky’, ‘finicky’ or ‘fussy’ eating is a thorny area because, as those words imply, it may just be an insignificant phase that needn’t be a major cause for concern or it may be a huge source of stress within a family, with complex underlying factors.
Learning to leave food is part of learning to love food – part 2
In my last post, I wrote about why it’s important to let your child leave food and to accept the waste that this inevitably entails. Now I want to talk about how your child leaves food.
Learning to leave food is part of learning to love food – Part 1
This is the first of a two-part piece on throwing away the food your child doesn’t eat.
Give your child the gift of self-regulation
Self-regulation, in relation to food and eating*, is the process whereby we listen our bodies’ cues; eating because we are hungry and stopping because we are full. Put simply, our bodies send signals to our brains which the brain translates into actions (the choice to eat or stop eating). This is actually an extremely complex and subtle system .
