Healthy Relationships with Food CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

needs are adequately considered, can have the most success in supporting children to have a balanced, positive food relationship. Here, parents are in charge of the what, where, and when of food, but it is the child who chooses whether to eat and how much based on their own needs and hunger. This also encourages children to recognise that food is enjoyable and satisfying.

Try these strategies to help develop a healthy relationship with food:

• Present your child with a wide variety of food – always include some foods you know they will eat but also new foods or foods they appear to dislike.

• Allow them to decide if they are hungry and wish to eat, and also how much to eat.

• Never pressure children to eat or finish a

• Encourage your child to get involved with the shopping, preparing, and cooking of food.

• Avoid making comments on how you or other people eat.

• Talk about food in terms of their physical properties, where they come from, or nutrition – never calories.

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