Beyond An Apple A Day
The notion that children can and should take charge of their own hunger still makes parents uneasy. After all, who else is going to keep a toddler from eating nothing but Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches all day? But many experts now believe that we’ve badly underestimated kids’ capacities for regulating wisely what and how much they eat. Satter, author of the influential guide “How to Get Your Kid to Eat … But Not Too Much,” advises parents to be gatekeepers, not food police....