Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming - Paperback

by Ellyn Satter (Author)

Read Your Child's Weight instead of putting your child on a diet!

If your child has been labeled obese or at risk of
overweight you owe it to them and to yourself to read this book and trust its
methods. Ellyn Satter considers babies through adolescents and gives parents
permission to feed well and let children grow up feeling good about food and their
bodies. She says parents don't have to give up Friday-night pizza in front of
the TV and they don't have to police their child at birthday parties. They do
have to do their jobs with feeding, but then they can relax and trust their
child to do theirs with eating and growing. Because Satter looks at the
emotional side of eating and weight, Satter helps parents raise competent
eaters who are protected in later life against gaining too much weight and even
having eating disorders. Packed with Satter's ever-popular feeding stories and backed
up by research evidence, Your Child's Weight offers clear
guidance for professionals as well as parents.

Back Jacket

If your goal is to have a slim child, you are looking for the magic diet and ready to do whatever it takes to achieve that, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you are willing to stow your agenda about your child's size and shape, shoulder your responsibilities with respect to feeding and parenting and raise your child to get the body that is right for them, read on. If, in fact, like a lot of parents you were reluctant to pick this book up because you dread even entertaining the thought that your child might have a weight problem and that you have to do something about it, with all the misery that entails, this is the book for you.

Author Biography

Early in her 40 years' endeavors as a parent, feeding expert, and family therapist, Ellyn Satter concluded that trying to get children to eat and weigh less does more harm than good. Children become whining food sneaks, siblings become spying tattletales, parents become police officers, and children get fatter, not thinner. In Your Child's Weight, Satter considers babies through adolescents and shares her evidence- and experience-based discoveries about what does work. Satter is the internationally acclaimed author of best-selling books including Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family and Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense.