It's Not About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids for a Lifetime of Healthy Eating Author: Dina Rose | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DGZL0DC | Format: EPUB
It's Not About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids for a Lifetime of Healthy Eating Description
Stop thinking about nutrition and start thinking about your child’s eating habits instead.You already know how to give your kids healthy food. But the hard part is getting them to eat it. After years of research and working with parents, Dina Rose, discovered a powerful truth: When parents focus solely on nutrition, their kids—surprisingly—eat poorly. But when families shift their emphasis to behaviors – the skills and habits kids are taught—they learn to eat right.
Every child can learn to eat well—but only if you show them how to do it. Dr. Rose describes the three habits—proportion, variety, and moderation—all kids need to learn, and gives you clever, practical ways to teach these food skills. All children can learn:
• How to confidently explore strange, new foods
• How to know when they’re hungry and when they’re full
• What to do when they say they’re “starving”—and about to attend a birthday party
• How to branch out from easy-to-like prepackaged kid fare to more mature tastes and textures: savory, tangy, runny, crunchy.
• How to engage in open and honest talk about food without yelling “I don’t like it!”
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It's Not About the Broccoli, you can teach your children how to eat, and give them the skills they need for a lifetime of health and vitality.
- File Size: 1489 KB
- Print Length: 272 pages
- Publisher: Perigee (January 7, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DGZL0DC
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,869 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
As a pediatric feeding specialist, I treat a variety of kids who have difficulty eating, but I've observed that the garden-variety picky eater's resistance to healthy eating can create as much stress in a household as a child who has medical challenges that impact eating skills. Feeding your child is an emotional journey and it's very easy to get off the path to TEACHING healthy eating. This book offers practical, no-nonsense advice on how to teach your children (picky eaters or not) to listen to their bodies, choose healthy foods most of the time (while certainly enjoying other foods on occasion) and think about how your own needs as a parent may be influencing your child's behavior. Refreshing and frank, with a touch of humor, It's Not About the Broccoli is a must read for every parent.
By speech therapist and mom
I began reading this book thinking that I wouldn’t get that much from it. My kids are pretty good eaters to begin with, and because we have dealt with food allergies from very young ages, their diet has never had a lot of the junk that American kids typically eat. But there is always room for improvement. I was pleasantly surprised to find this book to be so useful. As other reviewers have said, it moves away from a “nutrition” mindset and looks instead at our relationship to food (as parents) and the habits, values and messages that we unknowingly teach to our kids. I have been guilty of “just two more bites” even though I had previously read this is not a good solution. This book cites research that solidified in my mind how counter productive some common approaches to feeding can be. In addition to discussing the research, it gives practical advice on how to change the oppositional patterns that parents and kids can fall into regarding feeding. One example from the book that we have put into place: To get the kids used to plain (unsweetened) yogurt, they are now allowed mini chocolate chips as mix-ins, which will slowly give way to other, more healthy mix-ins, all while acclimating them to the taste of plain yogurt. I was skeptical that this would work, as I have never been able to get them to eat plain or even lightly sweetened yogurt. But it worked like a charm. There are many other helpful tips like this throughout the book. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
By B and Z's mommy
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