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Has anyone read Fearless Feeding - How to raise healthy eaters from high chair to high school?

BabyCarryingVesselBabyCarryingVessel member
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I just downloaded it on my Kindle and was curious about it. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the best thing for my girls. I put lots of healthy options in front of them, but right now I'm concerned about quantity. At 14 months, they can really eat a lot. For insance each girl could eat a 4 oz piece of fish, handful of cooked veggies, a whole piece of bread, a half cup of diced fruit, and then some if I let them continue. A part of me feels like they're growing girls and they must need all of this food, but then the other part wonders if I'm putting too much food in front of them at such a young age. I hope this book helps. Any words of wisdom?

 

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Re: Has anyone read Fearless Feeding - How to raise healthy eaters from high chair to high school?

  • Aurora_BorealisAurora_Borealis member
    DD often ate as much as an adult from about 12-18 months (like a typical breakfast would be 4 oz yogurt, an egg, a piece of fruit plus toast). I asked her Dr about it and she said as long as I was offering her healthy things that it was fine.

    Now at 22 months she has definitely slowed down in the eating department. She still eats well and healthy but it's not the crazy amount of food it once was.
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  • shannmshannm member
    At that age, I wouldn't limit quantity of good stuff, especially if they don't have weight problems.
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  • Meery82Meery82 member
    OP, the book sounds interesting. Let us know what you think of it!
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  • shotzieshotzie member
    Little ones are really good at knowing how much they need to eat. So I wouldn't limit at this point. I am amazed some days at how much my LO's eat! Then they have days where it seems like they hardly eat two bites during meals. It all balances out.

    I'm reading "How to get your kid to eat...but not too much." The main premise is that we are responsible for providing healthy meals. Our kids are responsible for deciding if they eat it and how much.

    I have noticed that our 23 month old eats just about any food we offer, and eats a pretty good amount. Our almost 4 yr old is pickier, and tends to eat just a few bites, particularly at dinner. We were constantly bribing her to get her to eat more. (Eat 3 bites of chicken, and then you can have dessert).

    It dawned on me that we leave our 23 month old to eat her meal in peace, because we were always interfering with DD1's meals. And that meals were smoother with DD2 because we trusted her ability to know how much she needed to eat. Somewhere along the way, we decided DD1 needed coaxing at meal times, but that just made meals a battle.

    Since I've been reading this book, I've made a conscious effort to put DD1's plate in front of her, and not bother her about how much she eats/which foods she eats. So far, she's eating more, and is eating foods she used to refuse to eat!

    Sorry, that got long... :) Anyway, I'd trust that your LO's know when they're full. They're too young to have learned to ignore that feeling.
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  • BabyCarryingVesselBabyCarryingVessel member

    @shotzie and @Nicb13, thank you so much! All of those things sound consistent with my book so far. We're not in your phase yet, but this is really good information for the future. The premise of High Chair to High School is the what, how and why. Parents are responsible for what they feed, when and how they feed and the child is responsibe for whether they eat and how much.

    A few light bulbs have gone off since reading this. (I don't want to do a big disservice to the authors by giving everything away, but I'll just talk about this one thing... I encourage you all to read this!) I never realized how important structure is (the how). It asks you to think about how meals were structured when you were a kid, ie, a house where your parents micromanaged every meal and every bite, or the total opposite, where there was no structure and no set meal times. Children who are raised in houses where the meal times are predictable and stress free have the least instances of unhealthy eating habits. But kids raised in micromanaged or totally hands off meal settings were more like to have problems. I was raised in very hands off house. Meals were a crap shoot since mom and dad worked so much. We would raid cabinets for granola bars or find something like tomato soup. There was always plenty of food, but no structure to the meals. It sounds obvious, but structure is something I've never thought about. I've always been overweight and I think this connection makes sense. There's much more in this book that's really helped me. Worth the buy! I just bought it on amazon kindle and I've been reading it from my phone.

     

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  • diana.filipidiana.filipi member
    My daughter and now my son have both been really hearty eaters.  My daughter slowed WAY down though.  At this point there are many times she barely touches her food. 
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