Feeding with Love and Good Sense: The First Two Years

Ellyn Satter

Oct 2014 · Kelcy Press

About this ebook

“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.

About the author

Ellyn Satter has helped generations of parents through the rewards and challenges of the growing-up years. Parents and other professionals praise her best-selling books, videos, presentations, social media, and website publications as making all the difference between joy or struggle with feeding and eating. Satter is a Family Therapist and Registered Dietitian, an expert on child development as it relates to feeding, and the internationally recognized authority on feeding and eating. In the Feeding with Love and Good Sense booklet series, she distills her stage-related advice into a few brief and empowering pages. These stage related booklets help busy parents address the unique challenges of the infant, toddler, preschooler, school-age, and teenage child. These remarkable books concisely and powerfully show parents how to understand their child, give themselves a break, head off feeding problems before they start, solve feeding problems, and raise healthy children who are a joy to feed. Satter’s research and clinical experience shows that one in three children has a feeding problem: 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, preparing special foods or separate meals or letting their children eat junk food or drink special formulas just to get something into them. In the later years, parents often find family meals so unrewarding that they give up them entirely. Ellyn Satter replaces strife with success. For decades, she and her many followers have demonstrated that the way to raise healthy children who are a joy to feed is to follow the Division of Responsibility in Feeding. This booklet briefly and clearly shows parents how to manage the what, when, and where of feeding and trust their child to do the how much and whether of eating. Satter is the author of four best-selling, full-length books about feeding and eating, the producer of the Feeding with Love and Good Sense DVD series that shows what to do—and not do—with feeding, is a sought-after speaker and consultant, and is content and programming director for the Ellyn Satter Institute.