MOMENT | How to reduce the stress of mealtimes, with Rhiannon Lambert

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm, connection, and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Rhiannon Lambert, one of the UK’s leading nutritionists and the bestselling author of The Science of Nutrition. Rhiannon shares such a refreshing message about food and children: we need to stop stressing. She explains how our little ones pick up on the pressure we put around food – and how that can actually push them further away from eating the things we want them to. Instead, Rhiannon shares practical, kind advice to help us take the pressure off and support a positive relationship with food. I loved Rhiannon’s honesty about her own experience – including the nights her little boy refuses dinner completely and the small, realistic swaps she makes to keep things simple. This is such a reassuring, non-judgemental conversation. A reminder that no child is a perfect eater, and that taking the stress out of mealtimes can transform not just what our children eat – but how we all feel around food. To listen to the full episode with Rhiannon, listen here. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Sign up to GoHenry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids' money smarts from age 6 -18. Sign up today at gohenry.com/motherkind and you'll get a free £5 pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Go Henry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids
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0:17.8	for pocket money and through the easy to use app, a check it's done
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0:27.2	love about GoHenry is the educational videos. So by age and level, the girls are learning
0:33.8	about saving, tax, earning and even how to spot online scams. I am obsessed with my
0:41.3	girls being financially educated and I love how easy Go Henry is making it. Exclusive to
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0:54.1	Sign up today at gohenry.com forward slash motherkind and you'll get a free five pound pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart.
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1:16.2	Hey everyone, welcome to this week's Motherkind moment. Your place on a Monday for calm,
1:23.9	connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the crazy week ahead. This
1:29.2	week's moment is with the wonderful Riannan Lambert, where she shares why we need to stop
1:35.3	stressing about meal times. I really needed this one. Here it is. Children pick up on pressure.
1:48.3	So the worst thing you can do, it goes against everything you want to do.
1:52.8	You want your child to eat veg. You want them to eat well. But if you're placing pressure,
1:56.7	they'll pick up on it and they will lean. You're just pushing them further and further away from eating. So like sometimes you just have to let go and put an enjoyed item on the plate with a little
2:02.6	bit of the other stuff you want them to eat. Keep the meals smaller than you actually think they
2:06.7	need to be because you can always put more on the plate if they eat it. I think that's a tip for
2:11.2	parents. Often they fill the plate. I know there's phases where they need the variety,
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