Sep 9, 2026 · 49 min · 18 segments
Feeding children can bring up so much pressure. Are they eating enough? Are they getting the right nutrients? Should we limit sugar? What do we do when they refuse everything on their plate? In this…
We loved the first time you were with us, and it really just, um, showed us how aligned our work is as mental health professionals and somebody who's really dedicated their life to feeding children well.
I was standing in the pediatrician's office, and she told me he's not gaining weight.
He was nine months old, and at that moment, I just felt like I had failed my child.
And I didn't know it at the time, but that was the beginning of so many years of working to keep him on the growth chart, high-calorie cooking.
And so fortunately for him, I'd already gotten into child feeding with his brother, and so I was like, "Wait a second.
I notice what's happening here." And so I knew what to do, but yeah, I, I realized, gosh, feeding my kids is just not as easy as I was [laughs] expecting it to be.
And when my oldest one was three and went to preschool, and I'm making these cute little bento lunches to help him eat at preschool, I thought, "I can't be the only parent experiencing this." And that's when I started, uh, Kids Eat in Color.
And so how did, how did it shift maybe how you thought about food beforehand to where you are in your journey now?
There is so much tension in real life around nutrition and feeding kids because I can know all the science about an optimal diet for, you know, what's an optimal diet for most people, and then I can look at a kid like mine who's having a hard time staying on the growth chart and think, "Yeah, actually, it doesn't matter if I'm feeding him an optimal diet.
I just have to feed him a diet that he's gonna eat." Because at some level, keeping a kid on the growth chart by feeding them literally anything is more important to their health than feeding them an optimal diet.
But then I also have my other kid, so there was one period of time where I'm feeding one kid, you know, kind of more snacks and stuff because that's what he needed, so naturally the second kid is eating more snacks and things, and then he developed constipation.
We loved the first time you were with us, and it really just, um, showed us how aligned our work is as mental health professionals and somebody who's really dedicated their life to feeding children well.
I was standing in the pediatrician's office, and she told me he's not gaining weight.
He was nine months old, and at that moment, I just felt like I had failed my child.
And I didn't know it at the time, but that was the beginning of so many years of working to keep him on the growth chart, high-calorie cooking.
And so fortunately for him, I'd already gotten into child feeding with his brother, and so I was like, "Wait a second.
I notice what's happening here." And so I knew what to do, but yeah, I, I realized, gosh, feeding my kids is just not as easy as I was [laughs] expecting it to be.
And when my oldest one was three and went to preschool, and I'm making these cute little bento lunches to help him eat at preschool, I thought, "I can't be the only parent experiencing this." And that's when I started, uh, Kids Eat in Color.
And so how did, how did it shift maybe how you thought about food beforehand to where you are in your journey now?
There is so much tension in real life around nutrition and feeding kids because I can know all the science about an optimal diet for, you know, what's an optimal diet for most people, and then I can look at a kid like mine who's having a hard time staying on the growth chart and think, "Yeah, actually, it doesn't matter if I'm feeding him an optimal diet.
I just have to feed him a diet that he's gonna eat." Because at some level, keeping a kid on the growth chart by feeding them literally anything is more important to their health than feeding them an optimal diet.
But then I also have my other kid, so there was one period of time where I'm feeding one kid, you know, kind of more snacks and stuff because that's what he needed, so naturally the second kid is eating more snacks and things, and then he developed constipation.
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