I often say that raising a child to eat well and feel good in their body is about empowering your child, not overpowering them with rules and discipline. The stand point that it’s a parents job to make their child eat right, doesn’t work. What does work is making the shift from believing our role is to ensure they eat the right food […]
Video interview with Nicole Cruz, RD – is part of the Expert Series in the Raising Body Confident Kids online course. Nicole Cruz, MS, RDN is a registered dietitian nutritionist, mom of three, wife, and eating disorder specialist. She has a private practice located in Southern California, devoted to helping others reclaim their joy […]
One of the most successful tools eating disorder therapists and psychologists use to help heal clients’ body image… …is to help them *see* more body diversity. Like, a lot more. It’s an easy tool that you and I can also use, in our homes, to help prevent body image issues taking hold in our […]
To understand the reasons kids sneak food, we need to understand the reasons behind why they eat anything in the first place. There are three… 1. Physical satisfaction They are hungry, tired, or have the desire to eat because their body needs nutrition and they want, probably unconsciously, to satisfy that need. 2. Emotional satisfaction. Children […]
Video interview with Isabel Foxen Duke – part of the Expert Series in the Raising Body Confident Kids online course. Isabel Foxen Duke is the creator of Stop Fighting Food, a Video Training Series & Master Class for women who want to “stop feeling crazy around food.” After years of trying to overcome binge […]
Most parenting advice, when it comes to kids and food, sways heavily toward the ‘what kids should and shouldn’t eat’. They might throw in something like, it’s all about balance. Which makes it seem like *our* job to ensure that what goes in their mouth is just the right amount of this and not too […]
Ask a bunch of parents this question and most likely the answer will be, categorically, bad. But is it really so cut and dried? To understand if sugar is *good* or *bad*, we need to understand the context in which the child is eating it. Isabel Foxen Duke has a list of brilliant questions […]
When my first child was born, I remember promising her she was going to grow up slim and fit and devoid of any of the body and food struggles I’d had. In my mind that meant she was going to be fed healthy food, I’d limit sugar and ‘junk’ and all would be well. […]
If you’re anything like me you’ll know what mealtime battles are like. If you’ve been following my work for more than a hot minute, you’ll be learning the 10 key principles of raising body confident kids and feel less concerned about getting nutrition perfect. What the 10 principles don’t address, though, are broader parenting tools that […]
Like most women my age, I have an uncomfortable history with not feeling good enough. Truth be told, I still feel it. Every time I stand in front of an audience, or push ‘publish’ on a blog post, or send my kids off to school with mismatched socks (if they have socks on at all) […]