Once upon a time, there was a woman who exercised regularly during her pregnancy. When her baby was born, she took Mommy and Me Pilates classes and ...
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Pop Life
Apparently, when six-year-old boys aren’t talking about Star Wars, they’re talking about pop. All of a sudden, Henry is full of tales about kids ...
Four Ways I’ve Changed How I Eat
Nitrates in hot dogs, BPA in cans, pesticides on produce. Anyone else notice how crappy the news has been about food lately? When I consider the stuff ...
Snacking Insanity
I own approximately three-thousand plastic kid-size snacks bowls in a variety of colors and sizes. There have been large schools of Goldfish crackers ...
Stop Eating Food From Your Kids’ Plates!
In my self-righteous, childless days, I had a very long list of things I said I’d never do once I had them: change a diaper on an airplane seat, let ...
Do You Have A Feeding Strategy?
I was reading one of my go-to blogs, Raise Healthy Eaters, when I came across a post called "Why Every Parent Needs A Feeding Strategy". I flew ...
Why I Hate Those “Body After Baby!” Celebrity Stories (And You Should Too)
The cover of last week’s OK! magazine brings back so many memories—of me, after my son Sam was born 20 months ago, making soy protein and flaxseed ...
Vegploitation
You've probably heard the term "Mindful Eating". It's the practice of paying close attention to your hunger cues, savoring your food--and of course, ...
Picky Eaters? Try, Try Again (and Again and Again…)
If you’ve read anything about picky eaters, you’ve read this: It can take up to twenty exposures to a new food before a child will try it—much less ...
Are There Forbidden Foods in a Dietitian’s House?
Cloth or disposable, breast or bottle, attachment parenting or cry-it-out. When you become a mother, they’re some of the Big Choices you’re faced with ...