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Today's call is from Meredith and she's looking for help to get away from using the iPad at

Mealtimes. I totally use Pe away from using the iPad at meal times.

I totally use Peppa Pig to buy me some free time. So I am in no way advocating for a complete

screen removal from your home. If you want information on that, you got to go elsewhere because

I don't know how to make it happen. But I do know how to get it away from the table at meal times.

So today, that's what we're going to tackle how to move the screen away from meal times,

and we'll chat through the issues that distracted eating can cause.

Hi, Casey.

My name is Meredith.

My daughter is almost three, and I need some help with getting her to sit at the table for

mealtimes without iPad or some sort of distraction. It was also created a terrible habit of

feeding her a lot. It goes back to she was born premature and very small, and we were constantly getting to try to get her

to gain weight. She's still very small. She's only gained like a pound in a year. And so we're,

I fear that if we don't let her, you know, if we don't feed her first off, encourage her to

eat, that she won't eat very much because she's never interested in food.

It's also easier just to, if we do get her to the table, to let her watch an iPad so that she'll

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