How to Raise a Mindful Eater: 8 Powerful Principles for Transforming Your Child's Relationship with Food

I'm a new mom and setting the stage for a healthy relationship with food and eating for my child is incredibly important to me. I'd recently been reading on how to become a more mindful eater myself, so when I saw this book, I was excited to see what it was all about.Maryann Jacobsen puts forward such simple and SMART ideas for creating healthy mealtime practices and household norms around eating. As a society, we have over complicated eating. Jacobsen reminds us of the family meal foundations that are important on so many levels. I highly recommend this book.Since reading How to Raise a Mindful Eater, I've read Jacoben's What to Make for Dinner with Kids and Fearless Feeding. All are outstanding resources for anyone who feeds children. All of these books have been empowering and truly helpful.

I’ve been searching and searching for months for some clear, concrete, research based recommendations for how to handle feeding my 3 year old; there is so much contradictory information out there about portion size, seconds, sweets, meals and snacks that it’s really hard to know what the right thing to do is to raise a healthy kid.This book was an “aha” moment for me- it answered so many questions that I had and also gave a new perspective that I had not seen before. It made me rethink the way I relate to food and has helped me start to work toward an intuitive eating mindset vs good/ bad foods.The book in combination with the authors website and willingness to answer questions from her blog would be a gift for any parent struggling with these issues.

This book is truly a timely read in our culture that is obsessed with diets while obesity and eating disorders in children continue to have an alarming presence. Maryann provides great guidelines with her 8 principles in this book that allow readers to see that mindful eating involves more than just food.

I'm a mom and a registered dietitian, and I absolutely LOVE this book! It is such a welcome addition to the world of pediatric nutrition. Maryann addresses a wide range of concepts that are critical to establishing and maintaining a healthy relationship with food, and her writing style makes you feel like you're listening to a good friend sharing her wisdom - not at all preachy. I am thrilled to have such a great resource to recommend to clients.

The commonsense advice in this book has returned dividends within a month. I don't have to pound my poor son who is already self-conscious about his weight, but have been able to teach him how to think about how food makes him feel.I was really beginning to worry that my kid might be heading toward the all-too-common slide into obesity. Restricting access to food only made it worse. And he is clearly struggling with this in his pre-pubescent age which is already tormented in a million other ways. But within a month he's starting to talk about how food makes him feel, helps him to think, fuels his activities.We've only just started this learning period for both of us, but I'm finally optimistic.

I've been a follower and fan of Maryann's books and website since my child was 1 and have learned soooo much from her! This book encompasses everything that I've learned throughout the years from reading 6 different books and research all over the web. It's so wonderful to have all that information now organized into 1 book that I can refer inquiring minds too. Absolutely priceless! Everyone with kids should read this book!

I’m so thankful for this book! It’s totally changed the way I feed my family and it has taken such a load off my shoulders. I’ve implemented a few things already that have in the past stressed me out. 5 stars!!!

Provides tremendous insight into the root cause of weight issues stemming from childhood. Guides lost ones back to their innate ability to manage a healthy weight. Dismisses the concept of food addiction and embraces the idea that it’s ultimately not about the food at all.