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Take the Stress (and the Mess) Out of Eating Out
Over vacation we were treated to some nice restaurant meals. We don’t go out to eat very often, so it was very exciting for the whole family. One restaurant was particularly memorable: We went out to lunch with my sister’s family to a kosher Italian restaurant. Our choices on the children’s menu consisted of fish-and-chips,…
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Nursing Journal
Recently I gave birth to our second daughter after five years of prayers. Thankfully things were different this time around, the pregnancy was normal, the birth was a dream come true (VBAC), but nursing brought me to the same place I was five years ago. Again, my baby was low birth weight (just above 6lbs)…
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When Children Start to Make Their Own Food Choices
Earlier this year I was approached by a concerned mother whose daughter is ten years old and is overweight. This mother is blessed with a big family of five boys and five girls, and this daughter is the only one who is chubby. This ten year old girl reminded me of myself when I was…
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Preparing Family Meals
My daughter was playing at our neighbor’s house in the afternoon, and I popped in to see how things were going. My neighbor invited me in to drink some tea and then went back to her preparations for dinner. It was around five o’clock and she was preparing a soup. It seemed to me like…
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Is your child a picky eater?
In the mornings I am watching after my neighbor’s 10 month old daughter. She is an active, happy, and sweet baby. I love helping out my neighbor and her baby is a delight. My neighbor has one unique quality, she dislikes fruit. She won’t touch any type of fruit. As a mom she has had…
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What happens when you restrain your children’s eating?
I have a close friend whose baby loved to eat. Her baby, Sarah,[1] was just under a year old and would sit at the table and eat a full plate of food. Sarah would delight in eating just about every type of cuisine: Thai food, Chinese, Indian, you name it. Sarah loved feeding herself with…
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What is normal growth?
A child has a natural way of growing that is right for them. They know how much they need to grow the right way. If you do your job with feeding and let them decide how much they want to eat, you generally don’t need to worry about normal growth- it will happen. There are…
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What is a parent’s role in feeding?
It was a chamsin. For those that live in Israel, you know what I am talking about. Every once in a while, in Israel we get a chamsin, a sandstorm. During a chamsin, it is hot outside and gets pretty dark and looks like a yellow smog layer has taken over the usual blue skies. …
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