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What if I need more help?


Solving
feeding
problems
Solving Feeding problems
What if I need more help?
How Should I Handle Dessert?
The Finicky Child
The Overweight Child
The Poor Eater
What if my child won't eat vegetables?

Before you can fix a problem, you have to know what is causing it. Ellyn Satter, a registered dietitian, author, and psychotherapist at Family Therapy Center of Madison, is a widely recognized and respected authority on eating and feeding. Satter has helped many parents solve their children's eating problems.

Here's what Satter recommends:

  • Discuss the problem with your health care provider to rule out medical issues.
  • Ask for a referral to the dietitian to evaluate nutrition, food selection and feeding relationship issues.
  • Read one or more of Ellyn Satter's books:

Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming (Kelcy Press, 2005)

Child of Mine; Feeding with Love and Good Sense (Bull Publishing, 2000) helps parents observe and understand their child and translate that into good feeding.

Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family (Kelcy Press, 1999) teaches fast, efficient, delicious and nutritious food management for the 'thinking cook'

How to Get Your Kid to Eat...But Not Too Much (Bull Publishing, 1987) details solving feeding problems.

Based on your consultations, reading and this brochure, review the problem. Are you getting the help you need?

If the solutions you are trying don't work, call Ellyn Satter at Ellyn Satter Associates (608-271-7976) to discuss an evaluation. There is no obligation, and Ms. Satter will briefly review the problem with you and send you written information about the evaluation.

Here is what a complete evaluation includes:

  1. Review of medical records from birth, including replotting and reassessment of growth patterns.
  2. Nutritional analysis of 7 days' food intake.
  3. Videotaped observation of several family meals.
  4. Two or more in-office interviews to assess child development and family dynamics.
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