Best Selling Books by Ellyn Satter

Answering a multitude of questionssuch as What should a parent do with a child who wants to snack continuously? How should parents deal with a young teen who has declared herself a vegetarian and refuses to eat any type of meat? Or What can parents do with a child who claims he doesn''t like what''s been prepared, only to turn around and eat it at his friend''s house?this guide explores the relationship between parents, children, and food in a warm, friendly, and supportive way."

Raise a healthy child who is a joy to feed Dietitian and family therapist Ellyn Satter says feeding well isn''t just about raising a confident and joyful eater. It is about raising a confident and joyful person. In order to parent well with feeding, parents need to be freed from the maddening and impossible expectation of getting their child to eat certain foods and grow in certain ways. In her many years of practice, Satter has found that trying for those outcomes makes parents and children miserable and turns children into picky eaters who eat too much or too little and behave so poorly that they spoil family meals. This great gift to parents and professionals guides parents in making the world a loving and accepting place for children by following the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR). Parents do the what, when and where of feeding and trust their child to do the how much and whether of eating the food that they, the parents, provide. Children whose parents follow sDOR do better nutritionally; enjoy food, eating, and family meals; learn to eat new food; and grow in the way that is right for them. Discover how following sDOR in stage-appropriate ways teaches you to do an excellent job with parenting. Understand your baby’s sleep cycles and feeding cues so you can get on the same wavelength with breast- or bottle-feeding. Interpret with your baby’s oral-motor development so you can have fun navigating their transition from semi-solid food to family meals. Master family meals so you can enjoy mealtimes day after day, year after year. Learn to be considerate without catering and make wise use of forbidden food. Discover why your happily eating almost-toddler suddenly grabs for the spoon and refuses to eat. Navigate your toddler’s choosiness and independence without turning them into a picky eater or teaching them to eat for emotional reasons. Enjoy smooth sailing with feeding your preschooler without falling into the trap of trying to manage their eating. In her usual warm and entertaining fashion, filled with feeding stories and a gossipy take on the research literature, Satter demonstrates that sDOR works. It works for all children: big, small, and in-between, cautious to adventurous, typical children as well as those who have challenges. sDOR works with children who have medical conditions such as diabetes or cystic fibrosis, and children with genetic syndromes. sDOR even works for children on tube feedings by allowing them to feel good about food and eating and participate comfortably in family meals. In short, sDOR works to raise a self-confident child who is healthy and just the size they need to be.

As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.

Ellyn Satter''s Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well. Satter uses simple, delicious recipes as a scaffolding on which to hang cooking lessons, fast tips, night-before suggestions, in-depth background information, ways to involve kids in the kitchen, and guidelines on adapting menus for young children. In chapters about eating, feeding, choosing food, cooking, planning, and shopping, the author entertainingly helps readers have fun with food while not eating unhealthily or too often. She cites current studies and makes a convincing case for lightening up on fat and sodium without endangering ourselves or our children. The book demonstrates Satter''s dictum that “your positive feelings about food and eating will do more for your health than adhering to a set of rules about what to eat and what not to eat.”

Feeding with Love and Good Sense: 18 months through 6 years “I can’t believe it is so simple,” says a parent who adopted Satter’s methods instead of putting her toddler on a diet. “The very day, the very first meal that I followed your advice, everything was better,” says another. Ellyn Satter has helped countless parents through the toddler and preschool phases in feeding with her best-selling books, videos, presentations, media events, and website publications. Feeding Your Toddler and Preschooler is the second of the Feeding with Love and Good Sense booklet series written by Ellyn Satter, Registered Dietitian, Family Therapist, and internationally recognized authority on child nutrition and feeding. In this remarkable book, Satter shows parents how to give themselves a break, head off feeding problems before they start, and raise healthy children who are a joy to feed. One in three children has feeding problems: s/he is a seriously picky eater, grows too fast or too slowly, has poor mealtime behavior, doesn’t eat fruits and vegetables or drink milk, or has special needs with feeding. Studies show that almost all parents pressure, reward, threaten, and bribe their children to eat. Many parents run themselves ragged to get food into their children, preparing special foods or separate meals or letting their children drink special formulas or eat junk food. There is a better and far simpler way. For decades, parents have found that feeding is simple and rewarding when they follow Satter’s Division of Responsibility. In the Feeding with Love and Good Sense booklet series, Satter shows parents in words, pictures, and feeding stories how to do their jobs with feeding and let their children do their jobs with eating.

“Your help with understanding my baby has made all the difference with feeding,” says a parent. “Your booklet saved us from some real struggles with feeding,” says another. Following your advice made feeding my baby and toddler easy and so much fun,” says a third. “My friends and their children get into such hassles with feeding!” Ellyn Satter has helped millions of parents through the infant and toddler phases in feeding with her best-selling books, videos, presentations, media events, and website publications. Feeding the First Two Years is the first of the Feeding with Love and Good Sense booklet series written by Ellyn Satter, Registered Dietitian, Family Therapist, and internationally recognized authority on child nutrition and feeding. In Feeding the First Two Years, Satter show parents how to work out the kinks with breastfeeding or formula feeding, when and how to start solid foods and progress to table foods, how to navigate the sudden and bewildering almost-toddler and toddler changes, and how to solve feeding problems. For decades, parents have found that feeding is simple when they follow Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding. In this remarkable book, Satter shows parents in words, pictures, and feeding stories how to do their jobs with feeding, then let their children do their jobs with eating. Satter is a Registered Dietitian, Family Therapist, and internationally recognized expert on child feeding. She is the author of four best-selling, full-length books about feeding and eating and the producer of the Feeding with Love and Good Sense DVD series that shows what to do—and not do—with feeding.

Let your child be free from worry about eating, moving, and weight! Your newly independent middle-years child may act like they can make it on their own, but they need you as much as ever. This nifty booklet shows you how to continue to raise your child to enjoy eating, join in happily with family meals, be comfortable around unfamiliar food, and grow in the way that is right for them. Is feeding going poorly? Not to worry! Follow the advice in this booklet. When you change your ways with feeding, your child will change their ways with eating, and together you will enjoy family meals. Appropriate for eating dysfunction and disorder prevention and treatment in medical and educational settings, health care, public health, mental health, and public service.

Ellyn Satter''s Child of Mine kindly and reliably outlines a better way to feed: a way that avoids the pitfalls that cause half or more of children today to have feeding problems such as picky eating, poor behavior around food, obesity, and failure to thrive. Satter is well-known in the child care, health, and nutrition world for her eating and feeding expertise, and for the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR), the gold standard for parenting with food. sDOR frees parents from the maddening and impossible expectation of getting their child to eat certain foods and grow in certain ways. Instead, it allows them to enjoy feeding and their child to enjoy eating: to eat as much as they need of nutritious food and grow up to get the body that is right for them. Satter''s many stories from her decades of clinical experience demonstrate how sDOR works for children of all kinds: cautious or adventurous, relatively large, small, or in-between, children with allergies, neurodiverse children, those with diabetes or cystic fibrosis, and/or children with syndromes such Down syndrome or Russell-Silver syndrome. This concise and entertaining book-only 250 pages-combines Satter''s extensive experience with her sure grasp of research evidence to support parents'' confidence in doing an excellent job of feeding their child-and themselves.

Let your child feel good about eating and about their body Family meals are the single most important factor in teen welfare: They help you find a balance between including your child in the family and freeing them to find their way in the world. This brief, beautiful, and practical booklet explains how to apply the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding with your adolescent. It tells what to do in words and pictures, and shows why with lots of feeding stories from other parents. Appropriate for eating dysfunction and eating disorder prevention and treatment in medical and educational settings, health care, public health, mental health, and public service.

This booklet helps you master a kinder, gentler way of eating. It does for you what my colleagues, trainees, and I have often done in our respective practices with people who struggle with eating: help you become eating competent. Being a competent eater is feeling good about eating and doing a fine job with it-being relaxed and confident about taking good care of yourself with food. Throughout this booklet, I am careful to give you permission to eat as much as you want of food you enjoy. My Ellyn Satter Institute (ESI) colleagues, who are expert with eating competence and with helping with eating, contributed content and reviewed this manuscript again and again. Throughout, our emphasis is to give you strong permission to eat. At the same time, we carefully what we wrote to get rid of critical words and phrases-those that decode as "don''t eat so much; don''t eat what you enjoy."

Four 15-minute segments about the interpersonal dynamics that are found in the feeding relationship. The basic theme is that children are real people with feelings and cabilities.