End the power struggles. Find help for picky eating, food preoccupation, and worries about weight.
One in three parents will ask a doctor for help with feeding, but they don’t always know how to help. Described as “academic, but warm and down-to-earth,” Dr. Katja Rowell’s approach is grounded in research and experience.
When Mealtimes Are Hard available now
Understand your challenges and discover practical solutions that help with:
picky eating, from mild to extreme
feeding children with sensory and brain-based differences
anxiety around food
food preoccupation
menu planning for different needs, including your own
lowering the risk of eating disorders
supporting your child to tune in to hunger and fullness cues
More books from the Feeding Doctor
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Worries and struggles around food are some of the most common challenges for fostering and adoptive parents. End mealtime battles and anxiety with practical strategies and tips to help turn around even “extreme” picky eating. Relationship-building steps replace power struggles, rewards, and bri
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End mealtime battles and anxiety with practical strategies and tips to help turn around even “extreme” picky eating. Relationship-building steps replace power struggles, rewards, and bribes. Help your child eat to the best of their ability.
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It’s never too late. Understand why you relate to food the way you do, and explore tools to help you: support appetite, decrease anxiety, make peace with food, eat out with confidence, and enjoy better health.
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The more we let the anxiety and control around food go, the more he lets go of the obsession surrounding food (what a concept). I’m not going to lie, it can be tough, but he is a whole new happy little mischievous toddler - and I LOVE it!!!!
—Anneliese, adoptive mom
Explore Responsive Feeding
A conversation with Katja Rowell, MD on extreme picky eating and children with feeding challenges.
The Original Lunch Box Card
Protect your child from pressure at school and away from home. Print, fill in, and laminate this “lunch box card.” Place it in your child’s lunch box and tell them that if an adult asks them to eat certain foods or in a certain order, they can point to or hand over the card.
“What a great idea!! My 6-year-old would be very happy not to have to explain to the grown-up, but rather just have a card from Mom.”
—Lisa
