099: When You’re Confused About the Best Way To Feed Your Kids - Jennifer Anderson (@kids.eat.in.color)

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Confused about how to feed your kids without accidentally projecting disordered eating habits onto them? Or how to navigate your picky eater in the house? Or how to help them flex their intuitive eating muscles from within? The brilliant Jennifer Anderson from the ever-so-popular Instagram account @kids.eat.in.colour joins us today to break it all down for you.

If you have kids, want to have kids, or are curious about how eating differs in littles compared to adults, you are going to learn SO much in this episode such as how to help kids trust their inner body cues, how not to fixate on your child’s weight, how to introduce food to a picky eater, and how to manage a child who appears obsessed with sugar.

Tune into episode #99:

In this episode, Jennifer and I chat about:

  • Why intuitive eating strategies don’t directly translate to kids

  • How to help kids trust their inner bodily cues such as hunger and fullness

  • How not to fixate on your child’s weight—and also what to do if you’re concerned about your child’s weight

  • How to introduce food to a picky eater

  • What to do if you feel like your child might be addicted to sugar

  • The idea behind “forcing” kids to eat to make sure they get enough—and why it backfires

  • Why bribing kids (i.e., eat your dinner and then you can have dessert) isn’t the answer

  • How to incorporate kids’ preferences into meal planning

  • How to serve all foods to a child in a respectful and inclusive way

  • How not to stress about sending your child out into the diet-culture-centric world

  • Advice on how to approach “clean eating” with kids

  • The impact that stress around food has on our body

  • Strategies for parents to support themselves while feeding a child

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