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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 childs 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 isnt getting the nutrition he or she needs? Are you tired of fighting over food, suspect that what youve tried may be making things worse, but dont 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 cant find safe” foods. But you dont 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 childs challenges and the dynamics at play, youll be ready for the 5 steps (built around the clinically proven STEPS+ approachSupportive 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. Youll 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 youve learned, and dozens of scripts” help you respond to your child in the heat of the moment, as well as to others in your childs life (grandparents or your childs 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.
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What I appreciate most about
Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating is its respectful approach for both parents and children. It offers parents hope, understanding, and practical strategies that really work. Based on sound research and a true understanding of children, it gently but confidently guides families through the steps of building a healthy relationship with food.”
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, EdD, licensed teacher, parent educator, and author of Raising Your Spirited Child
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Finally, an antidote to the infuriating trend of books about tricking children into eating. Rowell and McGlothlin expertly illuminate the complex emotional world of children with extreme picky eating and the caregivers who struggle to feed them.
Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating is a masterpiece of practical strategies, compassion, and reassurance thats perfect for parents, pediatricians, and anyone who remembers hating just one more bite.”
Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD, pediatric eating disorder specialist, cofounder of the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians, and author of The Eating Disorders Clinical Pocket Guide
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With the persistent challenge of classification and treatment of feeding problems, eating disorder professionals are increasingly charged with treating children with feeding difficulties, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) cases, and selective eating. This book is an invaluable resource for eating disorder (ED) professionals in need of a thorough introduction to the spectrum of selective eating issues that may be outside their primary area of expertise, from typical picky eating to more pervasive food aversions. The authors expert handling of this topic will empower both professionals and parents to better understand and support their selective eaters.”
Katherine Zavodni, MPH, RD, LDN, registered dietitian specializing in outpatient nutrition therapy for eating disorders, family nutrition and childhood feeding, and intuitive eating
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Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating is a practical, child-focused, and guilt-free guide to addressing a variety of eating challenges. This book respects and values the parent as an expert. The nonjudgmental approach and easy-to-follow techniques will empower parents to make family mealtime a positive experience. By providing a sound overview of feeding development, Rowell and McGlothlin changed my understanding of typical eating. The suggested scripts and keen insight into the childs perspective takes the guesswork out of applying the STEPS+. I walked away with a deeper understanding of how children experience feeding and how my own feeding temperament affects how I relate to my children around food. Short-order cooking is out the door and dessert is on the table with dinner now. Were all enjoying a happier mealtime! My only wish is that Id had this book when my children were babies. I would strongly recommend this book to any parent who is struggling with mealtime.”
Erin Erickson, MPH, MN, RN, founder and cohost of Mom Enough®
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Katja Rowell and Jenny McGlothlin
get the anxiety and many challenges both children and families feel when children are highly selective eaters! They offer sensitive, thoughtful, and practical suggestions to support families in their journey toward happier and healthier mealtimes.”
Marsha Dunn Klein, MEd, OTR/L, FAOTA, pediatric therapist, educator, author, and co-owner of Mealtime Connections, a pediatric therapy clinic in Tucson, AZ
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Lots of books promise to help solve picky eating problems, but this one actually does! Rowell and McGlothlin have put together a comprehensive masterpiece.”
Skye Van Zetten, blogger at mealtimehostage.com
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Finally! Not just an acknowledgment, but an exploration and even a how-to manual on dealing with the long-neglected missing piece of pediatric feeding therapythe emotional dynamic for both the child and the parent! Lets face it, eating is not just about nutrition. Its also about enjoyment and family relationships. This gets lost amidst health and medical concerns when a child severely limits his eating. Katja Rowell and Jenny McGlothlin have given us a map for restoring and healing these components as well. Parents and therapists alike will be profoundly grateful.”
Jennifer Meyer, MA, CCC-SLP, cocreator of care-to-collaborate.com, and popular international speaker in the areas of pediatric dysphagia and neonatal therapy
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Finally, theres a solid resource for families who struggle with extreme picky eating! Rowell and McGlothlin leave no stone unturned as they help parents navigate all aspects of their childs eating, from the how of family dinners to decisions about feeding therapy. I will recommend this book again and again.”
Maryann Jacobsen, MS, RD, author, blogger, speaker, and coauthor of Fearless Feeding
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A wonderful, parent-friendly resource that is easy to read and full of practical suggestions to help your child come to the table!”
Catherine S. Shaker, MS/CCC-SLP, BCS-S, pediatric speech-language pathologist at the Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando, FL, and coauthor of The Early Feeding Skills Assessment Tool for NICU Infants”
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Having a child who is a picky eater can be both frustrating and worrisomeespecially for parents who are concerned their child isnt getting the nutrition they need to grow, stay healthy and strong, and thrive. In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor offers a clinically proven program called STEPS (Supportive Treatment of Eating in Preschoolers) to help parents of children with moderate to severe feeding or selective eating disorders. Parents will learn to support healthy and balanced eating, maintain their childs healthy weight, and end meal-time anxiety once and for all.
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Is your child an extremely picky eater? Do you worry that he or she might not be getting the nutrients they need? In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor offers a clinically proven program to help you support healthy and balanced eating habits in your child, maintain their healthy weight, and end meal-time anxiety once and for all. Having a child with extreme picky eating habits can be both frustrating and worrisomeespecially if you are concerned your child isnt getting the nutrition they need to grow, stay healthy and strong, and thrive. And if your child has a feeding or selective eating disorder (SED), they may simply refuse to eat a number of foods altogether. To make matters worse, children with feeding disorders often experience anxiety, anger, and may be suspicious or untrusting of adults who pressure, trick, and even force them to eat.
This book provides a clinically proven program called STEPS (Supportive Treatment of Eating in Preschoolers) that will help you get your childs feeding disorder or SED under control. In addition, youll find a number of practical strategies you can use for dealing with food aversion, low appetite, sensory challenges, autism spectrum-related food disorders, super-tasters, oral motor delay, acid reflux, and food allergies.
If your child has a feeding or selective eating disorder, you need powerful solutions you can use right now. This book will prove an invaluable guide to help restore peace to your dinner table.
About the Author
Katja Rowell, MD, is a graduate of the University of Michigan medical school and served as a family physician in urban, rural, and university student health settings. During her time in practice, she was struck by the prevalence of disordered eating and feeding, and related health problems. Rowell works with parents to provide personalized solutions and support for feeding and weight concerns, from selective eating to food preoccupation. She is the author of
Love Me, Feed Me: The Adoptive Parents Guide to Ending the Worry About Weight, Picky Eating, Power Struggles and More. Rowell teaches the importance of a healthy feeding relationship to health care providers, family therapists and childcare staff and consults with corporate clients, nutrition education and public health projects. She has appeared in the
St. Paul Pioneer Press, Betty Crocker Blog, Parents Magazine, Brain Child Magazine, The Utne Reader, and
Mommy MD Guides, among others. Find out more about Rowell at thefeedingdoctor.com.
Jenny McGlothlin, MS, CCC/SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and faculty associate at the University of Texas, Dallas. She developed and supervises the STEPS feeding program (2005-present); is a clinical lecturer who is certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; and specializes in pediatric motor speech disorders (apraxia, dysarthria), pediatric feeding/swallowing disorders (dysphagia), craniofacial disorders, supportive treatment of eating in preschoolers (STEPS), speech production research, and newborn/infant feeding.
Foreword writer Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker and therapist for infants and children with feeding and mealtime challenges. With more than fifty years experience as a speech-language pathologist specializing in feeding development and disorders in children, she pioneered the development of feeding and mealtime programs in the United States. Morris is the coauthor of three books, Pre-Feeding Skills: A Comprehensive Resource for Mealtime Development, The Mealtime Participation Guide and the Homemade Blended Formula Handbook.