When parents try to control their child’s eating practices, they unwittingly tantalize the child. Thus parents strip away child learning to self-regulate caloric intake. Research children start out with the ability to regulate eating based on the caloric density of foods – a skill taken away by parental controls.
E.M. Satter believes that parents must learn to make the best foods available and trust children to make correct decisions https://ellynsatter.com/about.jsp. Considerable research backs her up, though this flies in the face of conventional wisdom about parental responsibility. How can we cross the bridge?
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