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Coping with a Picky Eater : A Guide for the Perplexed Parent
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2083
EAN: 9780684837727
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0684837722
Label: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: October 20, 1998
Publisher: Fireside
Studio: Fireside
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Editorial Review:
End the Food Wars!
Do you feel as if you're running a restaurant instead of cooking dinner for a family? Are you tired of dumping plates of uneaten food in the garbage? Then you must read Coping with a Picky Eater. This fresh, practical, and realistic guide explains to parents how they can avoid mealtime battles with kids aged one to six years, using sensible strategies that will establish a lifetime of healthful eating habits.
With cases ranging from the toddler who eats only peanut butter and jelly on white bread to the six-year-old who insists on scrambled eggs and cheese at every meal, pediatrician William G. Wilkoff, M.D., has been counseling picky eaters and their concerned parents for more than twenty years. Debunking common myths and soothing parents' fears, Dr. Wilkoff covers such practical matters as:
- providing appropriate nutritional guidelines for youngsters one to six, including serving sizes;
- dealing with nutritional saboteurs -- from indulgent grandparents to accommodating (or impatient) caregivers;
- resisting the temptation to "whip up" special orders that disrupt family meals and give the picky eater control over the family dynamic.
Dr. Wilkoff shows that by establishing reasonable rules when children are young, parents can not only eliminate daily fights about food, but also reduce the possibility of eating disorders later in life.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Wasn't impresed...
I tried this book and I have to say it was not very helpful to me. My daughter has always been picky and i tried everything to get her to try new things. The suggestions were not for me and I felt like we were going nowhere. Truthfully, it was a DVD that really helped her! I found it here on Amazon - the company is called tinyguides and the kids on the DVD are actually eating and enjoying all sorts of foods. When I got it for her, she loved it so much and was even willing to try some new things. ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't waste your money!
My first child is a VERY picky eater. Even parents of other picky eaters are dismayed when they see how little he eats. We bought this book based on recommendations with a hope that it might make a difference. The only good advice in this book is not to worry if your child is a picky eater. We followed the other recommendations to "Not talk about what they are (or are not) eating", "Don't use dessert as a reward", etc, for about a year and a half, from about 18 months to over three years old. In ... Read More
Rating: - Not a book for those with the AP philosophy...
I found a couple of good ideas (i.e. not discussing eating during the meal and placing food on the plate and giving your child the option of eating it or not), but for the most part I found the suggestions by the author to be a bit extreme. I should have known it wasn't the book for me when he suggested using the Ferber method to get your child to sleep and not nursing on demand past the first few months.
I don't think locking your 2 year old in his/her room will make for a better eating style. In ... Read More
Rating:  - An end to wasted food, and cooking two meals
We found this book to be tremendously helpful. I was at the point of cooking completely separate meals for my partner and me, and for our boys. Using Dr. Wilcoff's ideas of serving at least one food the kids like, insisting on tiny tastes of new food before they get seconds of the other foods, has made mealtimes far calmer. Our older boy has discovered a taste for salad and for brocolli! Our younger son actually tried his grandfather's salmon pie and liked it! But even when they don't like the new food, ... Read More
Rating: - Refused to finish the book
I found one chapter "Not to Worry" to be of help to me. There I found a reassuring word about all of the typical reasons why parents worry about their children not eating. That said, I found the first three chapters to run on about nothing relating to the title of the book. Perhaps parents of older toddlers and preschoolers would find this book helpful. But as the mother of a "typical" 18-month old, I was completely appalled by the instruction to use a "restraint such as a harness ... Read More
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