Best Selling Books by Ellyn Satter

An updated edition of a best-selling guide draws on grassroots philosophies to highlight the benefits of healthy eating, in a volume of simple recipes that are complemented by quick-preparation tips and suggestions for adapting menus for young children. Original.

“Your help with understanding my baby has made all the difference with feeding,” says a parent. “Your booklet saved us from some real struggles with feeding,” says another. Following your advice made feeding my baby and toddler easy and so much fun,” says a third. “My friends and their children get into such hassles with feeding!” Ellyn Satter has helped millions of parents through the infant and toddler phases in feeding with her best-selling books, videos, presentations, media events, and website publications. Feeding the First Two Years is the first of the Feeding with Love and Good Sense booklet series written by Ellyn Satter, Registered Dietitian, Family Therapist, and internationally recognized authority on child nutrition and feeding. In Feeding the First Two Years, Satter show parents how to work out the kinks with breastfeeding or formula feeding, when and how to start solid foods and progress to table foods, how to navigate the sudden and bewildering almost-toddler and toddler changes, and how to solve feeding problems. For decades, parents have found that feeding is simple when they follow Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding. In this remarkable book, Satter shows parents in words, pictures, and feeding stories how to do their jobs with feeding, then let their children do their jobs with eating. Satter is a Registered Dietitian, Family Therapist, and internationally recognized expert on child feeding. She is the author of four best-selling, full-length books about feeding and eating and the producer of the Feeding with Love and Good Sense DVD series that shows what to do—and not do—with feeding.

Answering a multitude of questions—such as What should a parent do with a child who wants to snack continuously? How should parents deal with a young teen who has declared herself a vegetarian and refuses to eat any type of meat? Or What can parents do with a child who claims he doesn''t like what''s been prepared, only to turn around and eat it at his friend''s house?—this guide explores the relationship between parents, children, and food in a warm, friendly, and supportive way.

Widely 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.

Feeding with Love and Good Sense: 18 months through 6 years “I can’t believe it is so simple,” says a parent who adopted Satter’s methods instead of putting her toddler on a diet. “The very day, the very first meal that I followed your advice, everything was better,” says another. Ellyn Satter has helped countless parents through the toddler and preschool phases in feeding with her best-selling books, videos, presentations, media events, and website publications. Feeding Your Toddler and Preschooler is the second of the Feeding with Love and Good Sense booklet series written by Ellyn Satter, Registered Dietitian, Family Therapist, and internationally recognized authority on child nutrition and feeding. In this remarkable book, Satter shows parents how to give themselves a break, head off feeding problems before they start, and raise healthy children who are a joy to feed. One in three children has feeding problems: s/he is a seriously picky eater, grows too fast or too slowly, has poor mealtime behavior, doesn’t eat fruits and vegetables or drink milk, or has special needs with feeding. Studies show that almost all parents pressure, reward, threaten, and bribe their children to eat. Many parents run themselves ragged to get food into their children, preparing special foods or separate meals or letting their children drink special formulas or eat junk food. There is a better and far simpler way. For decades, parents have found that feeding is simple and rewarding when they follow Satter’s Division of Responsibility. In the Feeding with Love and Good Sense booklet series, Satter shows parents in words, pictures, and feeding stories how to do their jobs with feeding and let their children do their jobs with eating.

Provides anecdotes, tips, and strategies to ensure children recieve proper nutrition and maintain healthy eating habits.

Ellyn Satter''s Child of Mine kindly and reliably outlines a better way to feed: a way that avoids the pitfalls that cause half or more of children today to have feeding problems such as picky eating, poor behavior around food, obesity, and failure to thrive. Satter is well-known in the child care, health, and nutrition world for her eating and feeding expertise, and for the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR), the gold standard for parenting with food. sDOR frees parents from the maddening and impossible expectation of getting their child to eat certain foods and grow in certain ways. Instead, it allows them to enjoy feeding and their child to enjoy eating: to eat as much as they need of nutritious food and grow up to get the body that is right for them. Satter''s many stories from her decades of clinical experience demonstrate how sDOR works for children of all kinds: cautious or adventurous, relatively large, small, or in-between, children with allergies, neurodiverse children, those with diabetes or cystic fibrosis, and/or children with syndromes such Down syndrome or Russell-Silver syndrome. This concise and entertaining book-only 250 pages-combines Satter''s extensive experience with her sure grasp of research evidence to support parents'' confidence in doing an excellent job of feeding their child-and themselves.

This booklet helps you master a kinder, gentler way of eating. It does for you what my colleagues, trainees, and I have often done in our respective practices with people who struggle with eating: help you become eating competent. Being a competent eater is feeling good about eating and doing a fine job with it-being relaxed and confident about taking good care of yourself with food. Throughout this booklet, I am careful to give you permission to eat as much as you want of food you enjoy. My Ellyn Satter Institute (ESI) colleagues, who are expert with eating competence and with helping with eating, contributed content and reviewed this manuscript again and again. Throughout, our emphasis is to give you strong permission to eat. At the same time, we carefully what we wrote to get rid of critical words and phrases-those that decode as "don''t eat so much; don''t eat what you enjoy."

Aimed at parents and child care workers, these four vignettes covering infant and child feeding behavior demonstrate how to do the following: help children to eat well, prevent power struggles with children over eating, understand feeding from the child''s perspective, and determine when and when not to hold the line.

Four 15-minute segments about the interpersonal dynamics that are found in the feeding relationship. The basic theme is that children are real people with feelings and cabilities.

Abstract: Two charts are presented for parents of infants and very young children. One is an overview of infant developmental patterns from birth to 16 months and recommendations to introduce various foods and feeding practices at appropriate ages. The development patterns include hand coordination, body control, digestion, nutritional requirements, etc. The second chart suggests a feeding schedule for infants from birth to 12 months, which recommends breast milk or formula only until 5 months, with gradual introduction of fortified cereal at 6 months, juice and mashed vegetables (unsugared and unsalted) at 7 months, protein sources at 8-10 months, and other table foods by 12 months. Several "don''ts" are emphasized, such as not substituting yoghurt for meals, not using eggs until 8 months, and not using too much milk when the child is getting nutrition from other sources.