Ellyn Satter

But that is number three.

I, um, I love Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility because it really, the first time I read it, I was like, "Oh, that's weird.

That's, like, really simplistic." [laughs] But then I started to apply it to all the, the clients that I would see.

I'm going, "Oh my God, if we just follow Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility, it just makes so much sense of everything."

Mm-hmm.

So it's, um, hopefully I don't get this wrong now, but it's basically the parent decides what the food is, what time you're gonna eat it, and where you're gonna eat it, and the child decides if they're going to eat it and how much.

So what can you do instead? The next suggestion may feel really hard, even scary, but you want to stop pressuring your child to eat more.

Now, based on feeding expert Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in Feeding, you and your child each have different jobs at mealtime.

Your job is to decide what food is offered, when meals and snacks happen, and where your child eats.

But your child's job is to decide whether to eat, what to eat from what's offered, and how much to eat.

And that's one theory.

It's, uh, the division of responsibility from Ellyn Satter is, I think, what you're describing.

I'm glad you had words for it 'cause I was like-

Where the adult chooses, like, what is on offer and when, and the child chooses how much they eat.

in control of like-

El- like Ellyn Satter's, yeah

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Ellyn Satter, yeah, of what-

Love Ellyn

... what is available and when, right?