Table TalkTake a moment to think about your last dinner with your child or children.  If you can’t remember when you last sat down with your child or children at dinner, then we need to have a whole other conversation! What were some of the conversation topics you had?  Having a nice, pleasant...

Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility (sDOR)You will continue to hear me mention Ellyn Satter’s name throughout my blog and if you have met with me for a private consultation, you have probably been given a sheet on her Division of Responsibility. I have listed it here from Ellyn Satter’s...

Family Style Meals If you are trying to expand your child’s repertoire of foods they will eat, my advice is to serve meals family style. Family style is a wonderful way to offer new foods or foods that kids may have refused before in a non-stressful way. It may not seem stressful to have a new...

My Child Doesn't Eat Vegetables!This is often the main concern that parents express when I am seeing a family for the first time. And parents are surprised when I am not shocked or concerned. Now, this might surprise you that a dietitian is not concerned that children are not eating vegetables but...