Children Eating Healthy -
ideas for desperate parents!
If you're looking for idea on children eating healthy, you've come to the right place. It's a subject close to my heart.
No matter where I've done workshops, the most common question I get from parents revolves around concerns about their childrens eating. Everywhere I go I hear about finicky eaters, obese children or children who are underweight and I sense the desperation of parents wishing they knew what was best for their children. I also hear about the confusion that all the nutritional debates cause for parents. I mean - is butter really worse or better than butter? It seems there is so much contradictory diet advice that it's no wonder that what is good food and what is bad takes center stage when it comes to children eating healthy. Lastly, how to get children to eat healthily - and to sort through all the nutritional mish mash of messages - is something I've been studying for years and it's what I've researched and written about in my book "Mom, pass the Broccoli: How to empower your child with healthy eating habits for life". 
You can order it from Kalahari.net I share all the tips and tactics I've learned along the way in this book.
Food Quality- The closer our food is to the way Nature intended it, the healthier it is
- Most times, the more big lettering splashed on food packaging, and the louder marketers shout about the product, the more processed and unnatural it is and the less healthy is it . The report on how marketers dupe and con us will enrage you. It'll also change how you shop.
- Be more concerned with counting chemicals than counting calories because foods low in additives, colourants and preservatives are usually amongst the lowest in calories. So, if you concern yourself more with chemicals - the calories will take care of themselves
How do you do those things? Well that's exactly what I talk about in the Coloured Hand Eating Guide which is a fabulous game-based, children eating healthy guide. And children love to play it.... actually so do adults. We emptied grannies cupboards out over Christmas to play, and I don't know who had more fun, the kids, parents or grandparents.
Role Modeling is all important- What food parents keep in their homes, and what they themselves eat, is the biggest determining factor in whether their child lands up liking, choosing and eating vegetables or not. Finicky parents = finicky children.
- What childrens peers eat will often be able to change their preferences, especially if the friend is older than them. I discuss all these in the Coloured Hand Eating Guide (which will soon be available along with it's very own cookbook too)
- In a strange twist of fate, very often adults should be modeling young children and not the other way round! They have incredible wisdom about regulating their little bodies
We respond to a Sacred Biological Order- You cannot overfeed a newborn. Before we erode their ability to respond to their Sacred Biological order, they know when they've had enough and will stop. If we never messed with this inbuilt ability, we'd never over-eat. Nor would we have weight problems! The research on this will stun you.
- We don't have to worry about children eating healthy, we have to be more concerned that we erode their natural ability to respond to their biological needs.
And as a follow-up The Coloured Hand Eating guide or cookbook will soon be hitting the shelves and if you want to know when these (or other reports and books specially for concerned parents), are to be released, sign up for our complimentary ezine and you'll be kept in the loop.
In Mom, pass the Broccoli, not only do I explain all the small and ordinary ways we erode children's inbuilt ability to self-regulate but I also discuss how you can stop yourself doing that, and how you can put your children's eating back on the right track. Researching this book was fascinating - you'll find it gives you all the down to earth practical tools you need to help you have children with healthy, happy bodies and children eating healthy. It's information you just don't easily find in any one place anywhere else.Looking for children eating healthy recipes? Or perhaps you'd like to share some of your own with other Ditch Diets Visitors? To either find recipes or share yours click on the 'SUBMIT' button below and choose recipes. Now if you're one of those parents who are still struggling to get your children eating healthy, you can ask your questions or share your struggles here
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My 9 year old daughter was told by her friend that she is fat. Despite being an active child she is a little chubby. However, the seed has ...
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To all us concerned parents, I just want to say there is lots of hope. I have a now 6 year old daughter. Juliet's story is mentioned in Cari's book on ...
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Just love this book. It's just so sane and sensible! And I love all the practical tips and the no nonsense attitude. Thanks for all the fabulous research ...
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