If you’re doing things differently from your parents, it’s my bet that you could still be doing the same thing as them. Even when, on the outside, it looks like a 180-degree turn. The core still turns around the same thing. I see this happen in feeding so often. And I know, because I did…
How do you define a healthy relationship with food? It’s a core question, as you might want to cultivate that for your kids. What I notice is that often this definition goes in the direction of being in a relationship with so-called healthy foods – meaning we actively push exposure, and even intake of greens,…
A few weeks ago, a study made its way into my mailbox, my socials, and my mind. It was about the link between prenatal exposure to specific flavors and facial expressions at age three. The study did not measure the amounts of veggies eaten – it was just about smell. Basically, they measured facial expressions,…
When a parent asks other parents how to get their child to eat more vegetables or more solids, there’s a wave of advice flooding in. ‘Relax, she’ll grow out of it.’ ‘Just let it go and wait until it passes, it’s just another phase.’ ‘Make Pinterest-proof monsters out of fruit.’ ‘Tell how broccoli are little…
Different day, same sh*t.’ It was written in capital letters on the pencil case of one of the ‘bad’ guys when I was in high school. That phrase clearly left a mark, and I’m still unsure if that’s because I’m passionate about what drives human motivation, or because it was written so clearly, so real,…
Can parents really not know how to give food to their kids?’, a friend of mine casually shared with me. Her description of my work was deficit-based. She thought that parents reach out to me because they don’t know enough, and they need to know more. The reality is that most of the parents I…
‘It takes a village to raise a child,’ the saying goes. That’s true. We’re not meant to raise children alone. But here’s something we don’t always talk about: even when do have a village – or something that comes close, like when your extended family is visiting or you’re visiting them – I’ve learned I need a…
‘Sofie, why are you advocating for junk food?’ is a question I often get. Let me be crystal clear: I’m not advocating for junk food out of some deep love for it. I don’t eat these so-called bad, unhealthy foods that much. But I do want my kids to have a healthy relationship with junk…
A few weeks ago, my private Instagram led me to a reel titled ‘What my toddler eats in a day’. Unlike those ‘my kid eats broccoli like a champion’ videos – that are falsely suggesting that eating broccoli is one of the highest achievements in parenting – this video promoted a high-protein, low-carb, and moderately…
‘I hope my child won’t be a picky eater.’ I hear this so often from parents, and every time I recognize both the worry and the hope behind those words. The tricky part of ‘picky’ is that picky eating lacks a clear definition. Researchers, blogs, and parents all describe picky eating differently: some say it’s…
Emma Frisch – an amazing cookbook author, culinary educator and meal plan wizard – asked me to share three tips for parents on handling candy and stress around kids’ obsession with it during Halloween. Halloween, like many end-of-year traditions, is a time of food abundance, for which we’re not always in a mindset to manage.…
There I was, nearly 3 years ago, helping my toddler in our hotel bathroom, telling him that it might be harder to poo because he ate too many of those cookies at the buffet. What I said wasn’t exactly true, because our transit is more complex than my one-liner. The truth was … I could…
Weight stigma is discrimination based on your weight. You can come into contact with weight stigma at a very early age. Diet culture tells us that anyone who is overweight or obese is always unhealthy. Yet American research shows that nearly 30% of obese people are metabolically healthy. Conversely, more than 30% of normal-weight people…
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