Surely you’ve seen gluten-free foods at the grocery store. The words are on shelf signs and food labels, not to mention on the menus at many of your favorite restaurants.…
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We live in a world where our kids get programmed to worry more about what they look like than about character and academic success. According to national statistics, 81 percent…
At the grocery store I overheard snippets of a couple’s conversation. “Are you saying we always buy organic no matter what?” the man asked. “Yes, always,” the woman replied, examining…
Every parent has surely dealt with the challenge of a picky eater at some point or another. I have a friend with a seven-year-old son and four-yearold twins who, desperate…
Chubby cheeks. Pudgy legs. Buddha bellies. Parents of newborns often brag about their child’s height and weight percentiles after a visit to their pediatrician. How big and strong he’ll be!…
What are you modeling for your kids? Like it or not, they are watching and listening to everything parents do. Strategies for raising body-confident kids…
I was so intrigued by Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s comment on how “the amount of fruit you eat during the first ten years of your life has a dramatic effect on…
Keeping a journal for my Picky Eater hasn’t proved particularly revealing. My efforts to just leave her alone did lead to me recording bites of assorted food items, which she…
“Every family has a kid that won’t eat,” writes Jean Shepherd, author of A Christmas Story. For the Parker family, it was Ralphie’s younger brother, Randy. While best known for…
