Helping Your Child With Extreme Picky Eating

In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child’s nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all. Are you parenting a child with ‘extreme’ picky eating? Do you worry your child isn’t getting the nutrition he or she needs? Are you tired of fighting over food, suspect that what you’ve tried may be making things worse, but don’t know how to help? Having a child with ‘extreme’ picky eating is frustrating and sometimes scary. Children with feeding disorders, food aversions, or selective eating often experience anxiety around food, and the power struggles can negatively impact your relationship with your child. Children with extreme picky eating can also miss out on parties or camp because they can’t find “safe” foods. But you don’t have to choose between fighting over every bite and only serving a handful of safe foods for years on end. Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating offers hope, even if your child has “failed” feeding therapies before. After gaining a foundation of understanding of your child’s challenges and the dynamics at play, you’ll be ready for the 5 steps (built around the clinically proven STEPS+ approach—Supportive Treatment of Eating in PartnershipS) that transform feeding and meals so your child can learn to enjoy a variety of foods in the right amounts for healthy growth. You’ll discover specific strategies for dealing with anxiety, low appetite, sensory challenges, autism spectrum-related feeding issues, oral motor delay, and medically-based feeding problems. Tips and exercises reinforce what you’ve learned, and dozens of “scripts” help you respond to your child in the heat of the moment, as well as to others in your child’s life (grandparents or your child’s teacher) as you help them support your family on this journey. This book will prove an invaluable guide to restore peace to your dinner table and help you raise a healthy eater.

Initially developed by co-author Cheri Fraker in the course of treating an eleven-year-old who ate nothing but peanut butter, bread, and milk,Food Chainingis a breakthrough approach for dealing with picky eating and feeding problems at any age.Food Chainingemphasizes the relationship between foods in regard to taste, temperature, and texture. InFood Chaining, the internationally known feeding team behind this unique method shows how to help your child enjoy new and nutritious foods, no matter what the nature of his picky eating. The guide also includes information on common food allergies, improving eating skills, advice specific to special needs kids, and a pre-chaining program to help prevent food aversions before they develop.Food Chainingwill help you raise a lifelong healthy eater.

Offers a new approach to dealing with picky eaters of any age that suggests strategies for addressing a child's specific eating personality and that identifies temperments that influence eating behaviors.

It's never too late to make peace with food. Are you tired of eating the same 15 foods, ordering off the kids' menu, or feeling anxious or embarrassed about what you eat? You are not alone, and it can get better. Written by a speech pathologist specializing in feeding and a family doctor specializing in relational feeding, this workbook shares tips and strategies to help you get unstuck. It's a no-pressure, how-to guide filled with ideas and activities to explore at your own pace. Understand why you eat the way you do and take control of your path forward. Reclaim your place at the table-and restore your health and wellbeing. "These wise authors cover everything from the mechanics of trying/learning to like new foods to recovering from the shame of not being adventurous with eating. I will recommend this book to many, many clients." -Elizabeth Jackson, MS, RDN, LDN "A long overdue, step-by-step guide that actually helps teens and adults make peace with food." -Skye Van Zetten, founder of Mealtime Hostage blog and online parent-peer support group

"Just Take a Bite" takes parents and professionals step by step through he myths about eating to the complexity of eating itself, which leads to an understanding of physical, neurological and/or psychological reason why children may not be eating as they should.

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.

At last, a guide for adults who struggle with picky eating, fears of choking or vomiting, or lack of interest in eating. With real-life examples, practical tips, quizzes, worksheets, and structured activities, this engaging book takes you step-by-step through the latest evidence-based techniques to improve your relationship with food.

Do you have a picky eater who won't try new foods? Have you tried everything to get your child to eat? Renowned childhood nutrition expert, Jill Castle's Nourished Path to Try New Food - her systematic and strategic approach to help picky eaters try new food -- will move you from frustration to optimism, and your picky eater from cautious to adventurous. Instead of telling you to wait it out, or worse, sneak veggies or bribe your child with dessert, Try New Food will walk you through the in-depth steps to help your child overcome picky eating. By helping you remodel your feeding environment and create a step-by-step method to best suite your child, you'll learn how to help your picky eater instead of making things worse. You know the advice to "wait it out" doesn't work. You know "getting your child to eat" isn't working either. Try New Food takes a new approach. As a workbook, resource and guide, Try New Food equips you with the latest research and practical tips to help you feed your picky eater with love, patience and healthy food. Castle helps you better understand your child and picky eating, adopt the right mindset and reactions to pickiness, and create an effective plan for helping your child move beyond typical and extreme picky eating behaviors. Based on her years of working with picky eaters and her practical experiences as a mom herself, Castle maps out a step by step plan, blending sensible food options, positive feeding, and effective parenting. After reading this book, you will learn: The root of your child's picky eatingThe best way to interact with your child around foodHow to set up a fun, encouraging eating environmentThe counter-productive interactions (and language) that make picky eating worse (and what to do and say instead)When (and where) to seek more help for extreme picky eatersCastle's practical methods for helping your child progressively try new foodHow to make mealtime more calm, meaningful and nutritiousMost of all, Try New Food will help you nourish and nurture your picky eater while cultivating healthy eating patterns and a healthy relationship with food.