Episode 74 -

Yeah, because I haven't had anything on eating and I think it's such a difficult area for parents because as a parent, one of our jobs and one of our huge instincts is to feed our children.

So when they're refusing or being very restrictive, I know how hard this is for parents.

So yeah, tell us a little about your approach and what you'd recommend.

Yeah, so I completely agree with what you said.

I think feeding our children is so fundamental to being a parent, to our identity as parents, to what it means to raise a child.

And when something isn't going well around that, the child is picky, refusing to eat, not growing well.

It's so easy for us as parents to take it on ourselves and think that we're failing and we're not doing well in this very basic parenting thing.

And so we wanted to take a closer look at eating difficulties in children, but specifically restrictive eating.

So picky eaters, whether it is the A little bit picky eaters or even more extreme forms of picky eating.

There is a diagnosis called ARFID.

It is fairly new.

It's been introduced in the DSM-5, the latest version of the DSM in 2013.

ARFID stands for avoidant or restrictive food intake.

disorder.

And it really refers to individuals that are picky in their eating, restricting their intake, either in the quantity or the variety, but in a significant way, like in a way that leads to, you know, problems with growth or health or serious psychosocial impairment, things like that.

And so we wanted to try to help parents navigate restrictive eating in like under this more like space approach, which I can expand on.