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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...

How To Raise A Kid Who’s Not A Picky Eater (Tricks That ACTUALLY Work)

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...

4 Signs Your Baby Is Ready for Solid Foods

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...

Should you Dream Feed?

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...