Melanie Potock
Pediatric Feeding Expert and Author
Raise a Healthy, Happy Eater
feeding advice for parents and professionals
The Definitive Guide to Help Parents Prepare for Back to School Stress
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...
How to Avoid Power Struggles With Kids Who Are Picky Eaters
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...
The Best Feeding Schedule For Toddlers, According To Doctors
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...
Gagging: What You Need to Know About Feeding Baby
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...
How to Track Food Exposures and Expand Food Variety for Selective Eaters
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...
Why Is My Baby Pulling At Their Ears? They’re Trying To Tell You Something
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...
Myths About Picky Eating to Ignore
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...
Why Does My Baby Hate Their Pacifier? There Are A Few Reasons
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....
Yoga Training Will Improve Your Life
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...
Overcome Your Body Weakness with Your Mind
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...
