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What Is Tongue-Tie?

By Rebecca Desfosse Could tongue-tie be affecting your baby’s ability to breastfeed? Here’s everything you need to know about this common but often overlooked condition. Read More on Care.com >>...

Tips for Eating with Our SEVEN Senses – Part Two: Touch and Sound

By Melanie Potock In Part One of this series on Eating with Our SEVEN Senses, we explored the sense of sight, smell and taste and offered tips for encouraging a...

A Special Needs Guide for Learning to Eat with Your SEVEN Senses – Part One

By Melanie Potock Most of us think of five senses and the human body: Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.  But, when it comes to learning to eat a wide...

Autism and the School Cafeteria: Four Tips to Help Kids Eat

By Melanie Potock The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all students get at least 20 minutes to eat lunch, but many public elementary schools give kids just 20 minutes...

Top 10 Lessons I Learned from Loving Kids with Autism

By Melanie Potock If you’ve had the good fortune of loving kids with autism, you’ve probably encountered a few unexpected lessons in life.  In honor of National Autism Awareness Month...

5 Mistakes (some) Parents Make When Praising Their Picky Eater

By Melanie Potock What’s parenting got to do with raising a healthy eater?  Everything. Now, that’s not to say that kids become picky eaters because of “bad” parenting. When I teach...

S.I.T.! Feeding Your Child Using Stability and Independence at the Table

By Melanie Potock As a pediatric feeding therapist, I visit homes, daycares and preschools to help hesitant eaters become adventurous, healthy, happy eaters. The very first thing I assess is...

The Stress of Having a Picky Eater: 3 Tips to Help Parents

By Melanie Potock Children who resist trying new foods range from the garden-variety, hesitant “picky eater” to extremely selective. Deciphering the intricacies of where a child lies on the eating spectrum...

Picky, Picky Kids: Eat It or Starve!

By Melanie Potock A recent study on selective eating has received a lot of attention recently in the news, covered in places like The Washington Post, Jane Brody’s Well column,...

An Open Letter to the Moms Who Judged My Kids for Being Picky Eaters

By Sasha Brown-Worsham For the first seven years of motherhood, the subject of picky eating was my personal parenting third rail. A simple comment from another mom — “my children...