Tag: food
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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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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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