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The Gentle Eating Book

The Easier, Calmer Approach to Feeding Your Child and Solving Common Eating Problems

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The Gentle Eating Book

By: Sarah Ockwell-Smith
Narrated by: Katy Sobey
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Most parents worry about their child's eating at some point. Common concerns include picky eating in toddlerhood; sweet cravings and vegetable avoidance in the early school years; and dieting and worries about weight in the tween and teenage years. The Gentle Eating Book will help parents to understand their child's eating habits at each age. Starting from birth, the book covers how to start your child off with the most positive approach to eating, whether they are breast or bottle-fed.

Parents of older babies will find information about introducing solids, feeding at daycare and when to wean off of breast or formula milk. For parents with toddlers and older children, Sarah includes advice on picky eating and food refusal, overeating, snacking and navigating eating at school, while parents of tweens and teens will find information on dieting, peer pressure, promoting a positive body image and preparing children for future eating independence. At each age The Gentle Eating Book will help parents to feed their child in a manner that will set up positive eating habits for life.

©2018 Sarah Ockwell-Smith (P)2018 Little, Brown Book Group Children's Health Parenting & Families Relationships Health Mental Health Nutrition Habits
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You are going to hear me refer to this book a LOT! I am becoming an even bigger fan of Sarah Ockwell-Smith with each new book she releases. But this Gentle Eating one is truly fantastic.

She takes you through every stage - including why and how we eat - from breastfeeding, breastmilk-feeding a formula-feeding, through introducing solids (including BLW) to selctive and picky toddler eating (and why a lot of that is perfectly normal) through school aged children and teens. She talks about parents own experiences around food and body image and how that can impact on our children and much more.

I have the audio book on the go in the car and bought the e-book as well so I can highlight and copy passages to share, because there is just so much evidence-based wisdom in here

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