6. Respectful Parenting + Simplifying Kids' Nutrition | Kaitlyn Sapp of The Mellow Mama
The Freely Rooted Podcast
Kori Meloy and Fallon Lee
5 • 985 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we interviewed the hilarious & beautiful Kaitlyn Sapp to merge two of our favorite topics: respectful parenting + nourishment. These topics are so important to join together, because they have everything to do with each other! Nourishing our children isn't just about cooking "healthy foods" - it's about modeling what we want to see in our children, listening to & validating their communication, honoring their autonomy, & letting go of the desire to obsessively control their behavior + actions. Respecting our children as whole beings from birth is the foundation we need to lay to be able to simplify their nutrition with ease, nourish their minds + bodies, & cultivate peaceful mealtimes.
Join us as we sit down & discuss the following:
- Respectful parenting vs modern mainstream parenting
- Our personal stories discovering & implementing respectful parenting
- The mainstream approach to kids nutrition
- How respectful parenting laid the foundation for our approach to kids nutrition
- Kait’s top tips for restoring simplicity + peace to approaching food with your kids
- The importance of not using food as a tool for manipulation, bribery, or punishment
- Navigating "picky eating"
- Introducing new foods in a respectful way
- Teaching nourishment through modeling
- How to eliminate junk food from your home without guilt or shame
- Approaching birthday parties & events with ease
Books mentioned:
A Theory of Objectivist Parenting
Other favorites:
The Ministry Of Parenting Your Baby
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| 0:15.6 | It's all tied to our childhood experience. It really is and respectful parenting in this conversation is powerful for both the reparenting healing process that you were referring to, Cori, but also so that we can model for our kids. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome back to the freely rooted podcast. My name is Cori and for this week's episode, Fallon and I got to sit down with one of my absolute favorite voices in the world of Instagram and YouTube. Her name is Caitlin Sap and you might know know her as the Mello Mama on her platforms. But guys, we honestly had the best time on this episode. |
| 0:39.5 | We laughed a lot, slow claps for each other a lot, |
| 0:43.4 | and we really try to paint a beautiful picture |
| 0:46.0 | of what our motherhood philosophies are, |
| 0:49.2 | why it's different from mainstream parenting, |
| 0:51.9 | and why it has brought total ease and peace to approaching |
| 0:56.5 | nutrition with our children. Now one thing we talked about before recording was the realization of, oh my gosh, |
| 1:04.1 | nutrition beliefs and parenting beliefs |
| 1:06.8 | can be two of the most polarizing and triggering |
| 1:10.5 | and sensitive topics out there. And here we are combining them into one episode. |
| 1:15.0 | So we would be delusional to think that this episode will make everyone happy. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, considering that what we'll be talking about today is highly countercultural, it's essentially a guarantee that someone is going to be triggered by the information. The one thing I ask of you guys is to dig in. Just dig into those triggers and unpack them. Ask yourself why do I feel triggered by this? Why do I feel triggered by this information? It's probably because you are |
| 1:46.6 | wanting to do the best possible thing for your child. So if you hear that someone's doing something |
| 1:50.5 | different than you, it can be very sensitive and we totally understand that because we have been there. Each of us have been there. So please utilize the resources that we share with you guys and I have linked all of the books that we mentioned in the episode in the show notes. |
| 2:06.0 | So dig into the literature, challenge yourself, challenge your preform beliefs, as you'll hear in the episode. |
| 2:13.0 | Like I said, that is where we all started as well. |
| 2:15.8 | And speaking of resources, on that note, |
| 2:18.2 | last thing I want to mention before we jump into this episode |
| 2:21.0 | is just a reminder that Fallon and myself do not offer individual one-on-one support. |
| 2:26.1 | So if you do have specific questions about nutrition or health or your kids after this episode or |
| 2:32.1 | really any episode and we happen to see your message. or your |
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