by admin | Mar 29, 2019 | Division of Responsibility, Ellyn Satter, Emotions & Food, Feeding Disorder, Feeding Strategies, Podcast, Support for Moms
Busy Mom's Starter Guide to Making Peace with Food
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Parents receive conflicting messages about feeding. We’re told that getting the right nutrients is incredibly important to our child’s health and wellbeing. Then, we’re told that we should simply offer our kids food and let them decide whether and how much to eat. So, how do we follow both sets of advice? The fact is, nutrition is the result of a trusting feeding relationship, and if you can learn to appreciate your kiddo’s presentation and respond to their cues, you can achieve a stress-free mealtime.
Grace Wong is a certified eating disorder registered dietitian with 15 years of clinical experience in mental health and pediatric nutrition. Grace works with a diverse presentation of feeding and eating disorders and supports children with co-existing conditions like ADHD, autism, sensory processing challenges, anxiety, depression, addiction and trauma. She is committed to helping clients uncover their family feeding history and establish a comfortable environment at mealtime. Grace’s practice is based in Calgary, and she does online coaching through her Facebook business page.
Today, Grace joins us to explain how she supports parents whose kids have complex feeding presentations. She discusses the concept of food acceptance, sharing her aim to get children to a place where variety is not disruptive and her approach to establishing a peaceful mealtime. Listen in for Grace’s insight on the challenges of parenting neuro-diverse kiddos and learn how to appreciate your child’s feeding presentation and build a trusting feeding relationship!
Key Takeaways
How Grace supports parents whose kids eat differently
- Don’t treat child as ‘problem’
- Learn story, family feeding history
- Identify cause of current challenges
- Move child closer to natural trajectory
The tenets of division of responsibility in feeding
- Parents responsible for when, what and where
- Children responsible for whether, how much
The concept of responsive eating
- Relationship rather than set of rules
- Read child’s cues, respond appropriately
Grace’s insight on the idea of food acceptance
- Limited diet grows with experience
- Get to a place where variety not disruptive
The conflicting message parents receive re: feeding
- Nutrition important, necessary for wellbeing
- Offer children food and let them decide
How Grace works to establish a peaceful mealtime
- Collect story and identify stressors
- Give child autonomy to choose or remove
- Address concerns (e.g.: anxiety, appetite)
- Make meals safe + comfortable
The challenges of parenting neuro-diverse children
- Shaming or judgment from friends, family
- Kids employ masking to appear normal
- Increases anxiety, creates more aversion
Grace’s advice on appreciating your child’s presentation
- Develop trusting feeding relationship
- Outcome = nutrition, peace with food
Connect with Grace
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Resources
Ellen Satter’s Division of Responsibility
Dr. Katja Rowell
by admin | Oct 5, 2018 | Child Feeding, Division of Responsibility, Ellyn Satter, Nurtured Mama, parenting, Podcast, Role Model, Support for Moms
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The struggle is real when it comes to keeping the whole family happy at mealtime. How do you make sure everyone is eating without turning into a short-order cook? How do you encourage kids to eat without pressuring them? What is the best way—realistically—to get kids involved in meal prep?
Lauren Sharifi is a registered dietician and nutritionist with a passion for helping families make eating fun, simple and nourishing. In addition to being the mom of a toddler, she serves as a nutrition coach in private practice in the Boston area, offering nutrition counseling, medical nutrition therapy and meal planning services. Lauren’s food philosophy aligns with intuitive eating principles, and she takes a Health at Every Size approach to nutrition. She also teaches children’s cooking classes at Kids’ Test Kitchen and shares easy-to-make, family-friendly recipes on her blog, Bite of Health Nutrition.
Today, Lauren joins us to explain how the transition to motherhood helped her find her niche as a dietician and share her new focus on families, kids and intuitive eating. She offers advice around age-appropriate ways to get kids involved in meal prep and encouraging kids to eat without provoking anxiety—in the parent or child! Listen in for Lauren’s insight on leveraging ‘division of responsibility’ to make sure everyone is eating at mealtime and learn how to navigate the most common family meal challenges.
Key Takeaways
Lauren’s transition to motherhood
- Harder, more rewarding than expected
- Helped find career niche as dietician
The evolution of Lauren’s career
- Shift from hospital to working one-on-one
- Feeding son + intuitive eating research
- Private practice to focus on families/kids
How to get kids involved in meal prep
- Play with bowl, spoon when very young
- Pick night to get involved (i.e.: pour, mix)
- Add more responsibilities for older kids
- Small steps (e.g.: exposure to equipment)
Lauren’s insight on considering preferences
- Each family member picks meal
- Prep one food each person will eat
- Structured choices at grocery store
Lauren’s advice on encouraging kids to eat
- Be there and eat with child
- Cook different way, add sauce
- Different ways to get nutrients
What to do if kids are hungry just before a meal
- Eaten in past hour or two—wait
- Three hours or more, offer fruit/vegies
Connect with Lauren
Bite of Health Nutrition
Bite of Health on Facebook
Lauren on Instagram
Lauren on Twitter
Connect with Lindsay
Intuitive Eating Moms
Embodied & Well Mom Show on Facebook
Lindsay on Instagram
Lindsay on Pinterest
Lindsay on Twitter
Lindsay on LinkedIn
Resources
Kids’ Test Kitchen
Ellyn Satter Institute
Division of Responsibility
Books by Ellyn Satter
Intuitive Eating Moms Club
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