Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense PDF

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Download medical books file now PRETITLE Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror linkWidely considered the leading book involving nutrition and feeding infants and children, this revised edition offers practical advice that takes into account the most recent research into such topics as: emotional, cultural, and genetic aspects of eating; proper diet during pregnancy; breast-feeding versus; bottle-feeding; introducing solid food to an infant's diet; feeding the preschooler; and avoiding mealtime battles. An appendix looks at a wide range of disorders including allergies, asthma, and hyperactivity, and how to teach a child who is reluctant to eat. The author also discusses the benefits and drawbacks of giving young children vitamins.Direct download links available for PRETITLE Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense POSTTITLE

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• File Size: 1451 KB
• Print Length: 536 pages
• Publisher: Bull Publishing Company; Revised edition (August 1, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008WNSOVY
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Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense PDF

So there you all are, the five of you, finally sitting down at the dinner table. You, the mother, have managed to deliver a hot (or at least warm), nutritionally balanced (there is something green on the table), and home cooked (or close to) meal. Carefully, and with a sense of well-being, you dish it out and cut it up and place tidy plates of food in front of your first-grader, your pre-schooler and your toddler. Your husband helps himself. And as you, yourself, raise that first forkful to your lips, your first grader begins to push his food aimlessly around the plate, your pre-schooler shovels huge bites of pasta into his mouth, then pushes his plate away and announces he is waiting for desert (without having touched his broccoli), and your toddler throws all her food on the ground and screams delightedly, "uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh." Your sense of well-being vanishes, and you wonder, with your head in your hands, what, on earth, you've done wrong.

If this scenario recurs almost daily at your house (as it does at mine), then you should BUY THIS BOOK. It is one of those rare parenting books that actually gives you answers. It delivers them up in a friendly, no-nonsense style, based on the author's experience as a mother of three and as registered dietician/clinical social worker. Ellyn Satter has seen it all, and we can all benefit from the wealth of her experience. After reading this updated and expanded edition, I have learned to let my children serve themselves from the serving dishes on the table, and then to sit back and not worry about what else happens. Satter's philosophy regarding feeding is that it is the parent's job to determine the what and when of feeding: what food gets offered and when.

I don't know whether to give this book five stars or one.

When my son was around 15 months old he was a bottomless pit. I discovered Satter's book and realized I was wrong not to provide 2 nutritious snacks a day (on top of the standard 3 meals) and that restricting his calories was making him totally food-obsessed. So after a month or two of 3 meals plus 2 snacks a day and open-ended servings we were back on the track to normal, healthy eating.

Then at 18 months it was like a switch flipped in his head and he went from being the child who would eat anything to increasingly picky. No worry, Satter says, a toddler's caloric needs drop off around this point and it's normal for them to become finicky. A kid may need to taste a food up to 20 times to come to like it. And as long as you follow the division of feeding responsibility where the parent dictates the what, when, and where of eating and the child decides what and how much to eat, you'll be fine, says Satter. As a middle-ground between catering meals specially to your child, on one hand, and forcing them to eat everything on their plate, on the other, the author claims you side-step a lot of arguing over food with your child.

All of this makes so much sense on paper, but 18 months later (my son is 3 now) I'm not sure how grounded in reality it is. We have followed Satter's advice religiously (providing varied, nutritious meals, always having a "safe" starch on the table, no juice between meals, no pressure to eat, modeling sane eating habits ourselves, having dessert every once and a while and not making it contingent on eating "less fun" foods) and our son is down to 7 things he will eat: bread, cereal, apple sauce, pb&j, cream cheese bagels, saltines, and mango yogurt smoothie. Oh, and sweets.