Positive Food Parenting

Diet

3 Ways to Help Your Family Be Healthier This Year

Amelia R Sherry MPH, RD, CDN, CDCES on December 28, 2022

Resolving to lose weight in the new year? Reframing health goals can protect your child from disordered eating and body issues.

Appetite

When Emotional Eating Can Be Normal and Even Healthy

Amelia R Sherry MPH, RD, CDN, CDCES on December 21, 2022

Is your child's eating stressing you out? Learn how to discern emotional eating from evasive eating.

Body Image

5 Tools You Can Use to Strengthen Your Child's Body Image

Amelia R Sherry MPH, RD, CDN, CDCES on December 13, 2022

Fear your child may pick up on pressures around body image? Learning how kids with positive body image get and stay that way can help a lot.

Parenting

3 Ways to Better Understand Your Child’s Overeating

Amelia R Sherry MPH, RD, CDN, CDCES on September 29, 2022

Are your kids' constant requests for food driving you nuts? A few adjustments may help satisfy them for good.

Diet

5 Strategies to Protect Your Child From Diet Culture

Amelia R Sherry MPH, RD, CDN, CDCES on September 1, 2022

Are you worried about your child's eating or weight? Learn why taking steps to help them avoid the dieting mentality is the most loving move you can make.

Diet

One Way to Help Kids Avoid Unnecessary Weight Gain

Amelia R Sherry MPH, RD, CDN, CDCES on July 13, 2022

Nutrition researchers link food insecurity with unnecessary weight gain in kids. Understanding this phenomenon may help your family do better with eating too.