Melanie Potock

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

By Melanie Potock Almost every night for dinner for more than a year, my 2-year-old daughter food jagged on Cheerios and milk.  Kids who “food jag” rely heavily on a...

By Alice Callahan   My last post went into great detail about the research on age of starting solids and health outcomes, including nutrition, growth, illness, and allergies. If you...

By Judy Koutsky You may have heard about dream feeding from your neighbor or mom’s group, but you may not know exactly what it is. Here are the ins and...