Workshop for professionals

Helping children to eat and grow well in child care

Audience

Child care providers, Head Start Teachers, preschool teachers, consultants, administrators

Description 

Since child care providers and Head Start and preschool teachers work directly with children, they are tuned in to behavioral issues and ready to consider them in a workshop. Their challenge is replacing feeding lore with recommended feeding practice. Because they want to know what to do to get children to eat well, they are prone to put pressure on feeding. This workshop is short on the theoretical and long on the practical. It addresses the application of the Satter Feeding Dynamics Model (fdSatter) and the Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter) and illustrates how children develop eating competence. Much of the content is woven into case examples for problem-solving. In addition, since part of the issue in solving feeding problems is working with parents, each of the case examples lets participants practice diplomatically approaching parents about ineffective feeding practices and giving parents appropriate feeding guidance. For audiences that evaluate child growth, this workshop offers a brief segment on growth charts. Workshop text: Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family.

Training mode

Brief lectures, discussion, video, case examples, role-plays

Objectives

As a result of taking this training workshop, the learner will be able to:

• Understand how to raise children to be good eaters and movers: to follow Satter Feeding Dynamics Model (fdSatter) and the Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter).
• Detect interactions in the feeding relationship which support or undermine the child’s capabilities with eating and growth.
• Explore how to tactfully approach parents about recommended feeding practice.
• Consider the next steps in routinely integrating eating competence and feeding dynamics based in practices in child care.