My husband came back from our son’s doctor appointment with disheartening news: our kiddo had gained weight and was on the borderline of being overweight. “How can this be?” I wondered. We cook healthy meals at home, don’t eat junk food, and he doesn’t watch TV. The statistics weren’t adding up. “Seventy-five percent of the [...]
Category: eating
Today I’m excited to be with Tori at The sTORIbook discussing healthy eating habits in children. For those who don’t know Tori, a bit of an introduction: she’s a mom to one-year-old Luke, hails from San Antonio Texas, runs her own business from home in PR and marketing and is your go-to gal for fashion, [...]
How often do you eat together as a family? For those of us with young ones, eating with our kids is most likely a necessity rather than an ideal. After all, babies and toddlers still require a bit of supervision while eating, never mind that they still can’t fetch their own food from the fridge [...]
“Moo.” For the first several months of breastfeeding, I felt like a cow, and it had nothing to do with my post-pregnancy body. If I wasn’t constantly breastfeeding, I was pumping. I didn’t realize how often babies need to eat, nor how long each feeding session would take. And at family parties, I was either [...]
About a month ago, I wrote about my toddler’s propensity for eating. No matter how much food we placed in front of him, the boy would keep asking for more, more, more until I eventually figured out a system that seemed to work. Hooray for me… and the four other parents in the entire world [...]
Two years ago when my toddler was entering his fourth month, I offered him his first solid foods. (I was secretly hoping eating solid food would help him sleep longer. It didn’t.) My husband and I tend to cook meals at home, so making our own baby food wasn’t too much of a stretch. So [...]
“Thank you,” my toddler said, handing me his empty plate. “Want to get down and play.” “Wow,” I thought to myself. “He didn’t ask for more food. It worked!” My toddler loves eating, so much so that for the past several months, he asks for more food even after we’ve given him a gargantuan portion [...]
My toddler doesn’t eat junk food. He has never tasted ice cream, chips, fast food or soda. He has yet to partake in a birthday cake, including his own. And the cookies and muffins that he has eaten (fruit- and veggie-based, of course) were baked by me (or bought at the farmers market). It doesn’t [...]
Side note: I’m sure you’ve noticed that I changed the blog template. I tried the old blue template since I liked how it looked, but realized that I prefer text on white background. Hopefully this one is here to stay for a while! Now on to the post… Every single parenting advice I’ve heard, including [...]
For all the love he has for food and eating, LO isn’t one to grab the fork and spoon and insist on feeding himself. Even as a little baby, he didn’t take to eating with his hands until much later and preferred being spoon-fed. Now we try to get him to eat on his own [...]
