Melanie Potock

by Allison Hendricks As the final month of summer has official begun, it’s time to start thinking of the upcoming school year. With back-to-school shopping, choosing extracurricular activities and attending...

An Interview with Melanie Potock By Amy Morin, LCSW Mealtimes can be stressful for families with a child who is a picky eater. Convincing kids to try new foods and eat...

By Sarah Bunton For plenty of parents, convincing their child to eat healthy food — and do it often — can be a never ending conversation. You may have lucked out...

Parents.com asked me to write an article just for them regarding a hot topic: Gagging! Here’s when to chill, when to worry and what in the heck to do about...

By Melanie Potock Research shows a child takes eight to 15 exposures to a new food just to enhance acceptance of that food. Yet, most parents offer a new food to a...

By Shannon Evans When it comes to infants, parents can drive themselves crazy reading into every nonverbal cue they give. You’re constantly on the lookout for common ailments like ear...

By Melanie Potock No kid will starve. Kids who eat a very limited number of foods are indeed starving. They are deprived of adequate nutrition. Most won’t die, but they...

By Shannon Evans I’d read enough Mommy 101 lit to know better than to let pacifiers do my parenting for me, but I wasn’t expecting to have the opposite problem....

Our psoas major muscle, sometimes lovingly called, the “muscle of the soul”, is a core-stabilizing muscle and runs from the thigh bone through the length of the belly, connected at...

Our psoas major muscle, sometimes lovingly called, the “muscle of the soul”, is a core-stabilizing muscle and runs from the thigh bone through the length of the belly, connected at...