Ellyn Satter's Child of Mine: Nurturing a Confident and Joyful Eater: Nurturing a Confident and Joyful Eater

Dietitian and family therapist Ellyn Satter frees parents
from the maddening and impossible expectation of getting their child to eat
certain foods and grow in certain ways. In her many years of practice, Satter
has found that parents simply can't do that, and trying turns children into
picky eaters who eat too much or too little and behave so poorly that they
spoil family meals. In this great gift to parents as well as professionals, Ellyn
Satter's Child of Mine: Nurturing a Confident and Joyful Eater teaches how
to feed in a way that both parents and child can be successful. She guides
parents in applying the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR):
Parents do the what, when, and where of feeding, then
trust their child to do the how much and whether of eating.
Children whose parents follow sDOR do better nutritionally: They enjoy food,
eating, and family meals, learn to eat new food, and grow in the way that is
right for them.

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Find out how following sDOR in
stage-appropriate ways teaches you to do an excellent job with parenting.

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Understand your baby's sleep cycles and
feeding cues so you can get on the same wavelength with breast- or
bottle-feeding.

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Interpret with your baby's oral-motor
development so you can have fun navigating their transition from semi-solid
food to family meals.

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Master family meals so you can enjoy mealtimes
day after day, year after year. Learn to be considerate without catering and
make wise use of forbidden food.

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Discover why your happily eating
almost-toddler suddenly grabs for the spoon and refuses to eat.

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Navigate your toddler's choosiness and
independence without turning them into a picky eater or teaching them to eat
for emotional reasons.

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Enjoy smooth sailing with feeding your
preschooler without falling into the trap of trying to manage their eating.

In her usual warm and entertaining fashion, filled with
feeding stories and a gossipy take on the research literature, Satter
demonstrates that sDOR works. It works for all children: big, small, and
in-between, cautious to adventurous, typical children as well as those who have
challenges. sDOR works with children who have medical conditions such as
diabetes or cystic fibrosis, and children with genetic syndromes. sDOR even works
for children on tube feedings by allowing them to feel good about food and eating
and participate comfortably in family meals. In short, sDOR works to raise a
child who is healthy and just the size they need to be.