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“Feeding, like eating, is a learned behaviour and the methods that most parents absorb for doing it are based on the values of former times when a child needed to be protected from scarcity rather than plenty.”

Learning Food Eating Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Feeding is learning.”

Learning Food Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.”

Children Education Food Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Most of our approaches to feeding children are too short term. We worry about the next five minutes when we should worry about the next five years.”

Children Food Eating Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The art of feeding, it turns out, is not about pushing ‘one more bite’ into someone’s mouth, however healthy the food. Nor is it about authoritarian demands to abstain from all treats. It is about creating a mealtime environment where those eating are free to develop their own tastes, because all the choices on the table are real, whole food.”

Food Eating Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Feeding children too often can make them forget what their own hunger feels like. Large portions lead to overeating. And giving food to calm a distressed child teaches them that unhappiness is a reason to eat.”

Children Food Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Force-feeding is a crime of passion, driven by a parent’s desire to see a child eat; as with other crimes of passion, the perpetrator has lost sight of the loved one’s autonomy.”

Children Food Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.”

Children Food Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The true objective is independence: for a child to reach the point where they can regulate their own intake of food and to choose the things that will do them good while giving them pleasure. Weaning them off milk is one thing. But the real task for a parent is to wean children off needing you.”

Food Eating Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Next time you sit down to eat, imagine you are an ideal parent feeding a beloved child. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could offer yourself food in a warm, structured, no-fuss kind of way? You wouldn’t punish yourself with crash diets nor would you allow yourself too much junk. Your priority when choosing food would be to see yourself well nourished and you’d choose meals to keep your mood on an even keel. You’d want yourself to enjoy eating. The pantry would be stocked with good food and you would trust yourself to choose wisely from its contents.”

Children Food Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“What is so damaging about our gendered approach to food is that it encourages both boys and girls to feed themselves in ways that go against what their bodies require. We have got things the wrong way round. It is girls more than boys who need the most haemoglobin-boosting foods. And boys more than girls are lacking in salad and vegetables. Girl food and boy food are dangerous nonsense that prevents us from seeing the real problems of feeding boys and girls.”

Food Eating Gender Feeding Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Contrary to the impression given by the health pages of newspapers, the greatest single nutritional shortfall in our diets right now is not our failure to eat enough ‘superfoods’, whatever those might be. It is the iron deficiency of girls.”

Children Food Eating Gender Nutrition Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Anything can start to taste good if you have enough positive memories of being fed it by a parent.”

Food Taste Memory Parents Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.”

Childhood Food Eating Parents Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Almost every parent wants the best for their child, but they are frequently too hung up on the indignities of the past to see the real problems in front of them or to separate a child’s needs from their own urges.”

Kids Childhood Food Eating Parents Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Feeding children is an immense responsibility.”

Children Responsibility Food Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The way we reward children with food is based on folk memories of a food supply that has not existed in the West for decades, when white sugar was so rare it seemed to sparkle like snow.”

Children Food Eating Feeding Kids Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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First Bite: How We Learn to EatRelated source material

The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of ChangeRelated source material

The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the KitchenRelated source material