Product Description
As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 8 reviews)

An absolutely must read--I LOVE THIS BOOK! by S. Toronto (New York NY)

5 Stars
May 19, 2009
I adore this book. The principles are so sound, and have helped us in our journey to not turn food into a problem, but to have it be a source of enjoyment and happiness. We're of course not perfect in this pursuit, but the attitudes we're instilling in our children are so much more healthy for having read this book. I would recommend it to everyone, hands down!

must read if you're concerned about your child's weight and health by J. Vettel (Saint Paul, MN)

5 Stars
February 24, 2009
awesome, must read for anyone struggling with or worried about their child's size. This helped to decrease anxiety and struggle in our house and the approach is loving and affirming. And, if you follow the advice, it works. Ellyn Satter is the authority on childhood feeding. If you focus on weight loss or try to control how much your kids eat, it will fail. This is a model of healthy eating and common sense.

helpful by AllyS (Oly Wa)

5 Stars
August 07, 2008
As the parent of 2 children who have been at the same, albeit high, percentile on the growth curve since infancy, this book is very helpful. Now I see how I can tweak my part of the issue, and help my kids learn how to be who they naturally are, without feeling as if I am failing them. I really appreciate this book, thank you Ellyn Satter.

Revolutionary, though repetitive by Silicon Valley Girl (Sunnyvale, CA USA)

4 Stars
November 12, 2007
I love Ellyn Satter's healthy attitude toward food and eating. But I did get a bit tired of seeing the magic words "Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility" on page after page. Still, Satter's ideas are revolutionary enough that maybe she needs to repeat them frequently to get them across. Her basic idea? You are responsible for presenting your child with nutritious food at regular meal and snack times. You are not responsible for how much your child weighs, you are not responsible for how much (or how little) your child eats, and you shouldn't even try to prevent your child from ever eating "junk" food. Just as important as Satter's theory of how to feed a family is her critique of our "fat-phobic" culture. And she's not just making it up as she goes along--she cites the research to support her theories. This is an important book.

Helped dd loose weight without trying - by Deb (Jerzy shore)

5 Stars
July 20, 2006
How much damage did my parents do to me by making me "clean my plate" because "there were children starving in Africa!" Urgh. After 20 years with a weight problem, I'm finally getting it under control (with the help of WW) A few months ago - I realized that dd was heading towards obesity herself - and I was helping her ! After reading this book, incorporating some of the suggestions, she lost 10 lbs over the past 3 months, without even trying. Definately urge an overweight parent to read it before putting a child on "a diet" or otherwise limiting food. So glad I did before I made the same mistakes with my other 3 children!

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