Boundary setting with snacks and meals while creating a healthy relationship with food

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Many of us as adults are familiar with diet culture. We are familiar with what it means to have an unhealthy relationship of food whether we were raised in it or we have met others who have. I welcome Kate Kiersey, a dietician and founder of Well Fed Family, to discuss how we can create boundaries with snacks and meals (think promoting variety and managing excessive snacking) while simultaneously creating a healthy relationship with food. We discuss: How to talk to our kids about food choices How to approach feeding if there is a medical concern about weight How to manage the child who always seems hungry Handling emotional/boredom eating Find out more about WellFed Family on their website wellfed.family or on Instagram @wellfed.family Check out all the PedsDocTalk Courses for more guidance, tips, and support during parenthood. The Picky Eating Playbook offers strategies for toddler feeding and reducing mealtime battles. Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Are you looking to scratch off dinner from your to do list? Try out Prep Dish today and have high quality, healthy and delicious meals planned out for your family. I got you a 2 WEEKS FREE PREP DISH MEMBERSHIP so you can see if they're a good fit for your family. Just go to prepdish.com/pedsdoctalk for a two week free trial - you won't regret it!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But for kids from 2 to 12 years old, you have responsibilities that the parent has,
0:06.4	it's the things that the parent can control, and then separate from that you have responsibilities
0:11.9	of the child and what the child can control.
0:15.0	And so the parents are responsible for what foods are fed when they are feeding their child
0:20.7	and where they are feeding their child.
0:23.5	And then the child's responsibility is whether they want to eat the food and how much they
0:29.1	want to eat.
0:30.1	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show, thank you so much for your reviews, everything
0:36.1	that you put into this podcast to make sure that people know about this podcast means
0:40.5	so much.
0:41.5	I love getting to connect with parents from the PDT community on Mondays, give you some solo
0:47.0	parenting mindset guidance once a month, and I get to chat with the most amazing guests.
0:52.2	Like my guest today, who is Kate Cursey, who is the owner and dietician for a well-fed
0:58.0	family nutrition, and we are talking about if it's possible to create boundary setting
1:04.2	with snacks and meals while simultaneously creating a healthy relationship with food.
1:10.0	Thank you so much for joining me today, Kate.
1:12.2	Thanks for having me.
1:14.0	So tell me more about yourself and what brought you to find well-fed family nutrition,
1:19.0	and also why this topic is important to you.
1:21.5	Yeah, so after becoming a dietician, I always really wanted to work with kids.
1:26.8	I specifically didn't, though, want to work with kids with weight problems.
1:30.3	So you know, weight that's too high or too low, because I was already aware of how harmful
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