Don't solve my game.

We as adults tend to interfere with kids' innate abilities to self-regulate.

We pressure them to eat more of the things that we consider to be the right kinds of food

and restrict them from meeting the so-called wrong kinds of food.

Hey team, welcome back to don't salt My Game, where we are having conversations with game

who are flipping diet culture on its head.

I'm Laura Thomas.

I'm a registered nutritionist who specializes in intutes eating and anti-diet nutrition,

and I'm the author of Just Eat It and How to Just Eat It.

Today is a solo episode just with me and I'm going to be answering questions about feeding your

kiddos and anti-diet parenting in general that were sent in on Instagram.

But first I wanted to let you know about my upcoming workshop.

It's called Let's Talk About Snacks Baby.

It is not just for babies, it is for kids of all ages.

And so when I asked on my Instagram stories which workshop I should run next, It was pretty clearly weighted towards snacks.

People seem to have a lot of feelings about snacks. Uh, so we're going to unpack that a bit.

In this workshop, we're going to cover how to set boundaries around snacks, how to deal with

constant requests for snacks and why it's not always about the food. We'll talk about what if they

only want to eat snacks and the thing that plagues me most as a parent, what the hell to actually

give them for a snack. We'll talk about why rice cakes are not a snack and how to deal with

restrictive school snack policies.

And lastly, we'll think a bit about your relationship with snacks as a parent, because, like I said, people have feelings.

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