Ellyn Satter’s Child of Mine: Nurturing a Confident and Joyful Eater
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Raise a healthy child who is a joy to feed Â
Parents are supposed to raise a child who is lean and healthy, and they are bombarded with advice about what and how much their child should eat and how much they should weigh. In this fifth of her books, Satter is point-blank: Such expectations are maddening, impossible, and do far more harm than good. They produce food-selective children who are prone to gain too much weight and behave so poorly around food that parents give up on family meals. Satter says the solution is surprising simple. Parents can relax, do their jobs with feeding, and trust their child to do their jobs with eating. Satter is talking about following the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding. Â
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Ellyn Satter, MS, MSSW, is a dietitian, family therapist, and internationally recognized authority on eating and feeding. Based on her research and decades of clinical experience, Satter is widely known for her pioneering work with the Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter) and the Satter Feeding Dynamics Model (fdSatter). The Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR), is recognized by health and mental health professionals and parents as being the gold standard for feeding children. Satter’s writing is most of all warm and entertaining, packed with stories from her decades of clinical experience and backed up with solid, readable, and savvy insights on research. Satter resides in Madison, WI. Â
Ellyn Satter’s Child of Mine: Nurturing a Confident and Joyful Eater is written for both parents and professionals. It is warm and entertaining, filled with feeding stories and a savvy take on the research literature. Use this book to support your practice and/or as a university textbook. Quantity discounts available. Have an idea for what you would like to do? Contact us at [email protected]! Â
TABLE OF CONTENTSÂ Â
PART I. Understand Trust with Feeding and Eating Â
Chapter 1: Feed Your Child with Love and Trust Â
Chapter 2: Raise Your Child to Know What to Eat Â
Chapter 3: Your Child Knows How Much to Eat Â
Chapter 4: Your Child Knows How to Grow Â
Chapter 5: Discover the Joy of Eating Â
PART II. How To Feed: The Early Months Â
Chapter 6: Your Feeding Decision: Breastfeeding or Formula-Feeding Â
Chapter 7: Understanding Your Newborn Â
Chapter 8: Breastfeeding Your Baby Â
Chapter 9: Formula-Feeding Your Baby Â
Chapter 10: Feeding Your Older Baby and Almost-Toddler Â
PART III. How To Feed: The Toddler and Preschooler Â
Chapter 11: Feeding Your Toddler Â
Chapter 12: Feeding Your PreschoolerÂ
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| Weight | 13 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 10 × 11 × 12 in |
10 reviews for Ellyn Satter’s Child of Mine: Nurturing a Confident and Joyful Eater
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Alena M. Clark, PhD, MPH, RDN, CLC –
Empowers parents! As a registered dietitian, educator, and certified lactation counselor, I deeply appreciate Ellyn Satter’s empowering approach to feeding. Her new book beautifully emphasizes the importance of allowing children and parents to enjoy food, trust the body’s natural hunger and fullness cues, and find peace in their decisions. Satter’s wisdom encourages us to support parents in making informed decisions based on their unique circumstances and feed children well to be not only be joyful eaters, but joyful people.
Dawn Clifford, RD, PhD, parent and Arizona State University nutrition professor –
The book to purchase for every expecting parent! This is hands down the most essential parenting book out there! The topic is feeding children, but the trust message woven throughout applies to all areas of parenting. It’s all about tuning into your inner wisdom to discover what you and your child need. The trust model of sDOR is a MUST; control paradigms driven by diet culture must go! The many family stories make this book both engaging and convincing. Satter clearly explains the extensive scientific evidence that supports her work in a way that entertains and captivates. 
Maureen Black, PhD University of Maryland School of Medicine  –
Feeding is truly parenting. As a psychologist, professor, and researcher in global nutrition, I focus on children’s early development and the role that families, communities, and societies play in nurturing children. Ellyn Satter’s Child of Mine: Nurturing a Joyful and Confident Eater teaches what I care about. By focusing on trust, rather than on the amount of food consumed, Satter lays the groundwork for children to approach eating as a joyful experience. That contributes not only to their ability to regulate how much they eat, but also to their emotional and social development through their sense of security and self-respect. 
Joanna Mackie, PhD, University of Central Florida Professor of Medicine –
Shapes lifelong attitudes toward food and self. Ellyn Satter’s Child of Mine: Raising a Confident and Joyful Eater, makes the radical and transformative proposal to stop imposing rigid and prescriptive dietary routines and simply trust children. Satter bases her recommendations on extensive clinical experience and a sound analysis of research on child nutrition and eating behavior, food parenting practices, and population health. This clear and engaging book builds a solid basis for focusing on how we feed our children, not on what and how much they eat.
Amy Ozier, RD, PhD, parent and eating disorders therapist  –
Stop feeding anxious and upset about eating! Satter says eating is too important to make it a hassle, that guilt is a terrible guide for eating and feeding, and that parents can trust their child from infancy on to eat and grow well. She lays it on the line: Ignore weight dictates, ignore good-food-bad-food thinking, trust what is right for you and your child. Satter’s loving bluntness and honesty have been a godsend for me, my family, and my clients who struggle with eating disorders. You will have light bulb moments, and you are guaranteed to relate—either as the parent you are or the child you were—to at least one of her real-life family feeding stories.
Cristen Harris, PhD, UW Seattle nutrition professor, certified eating disorder specialist, and parent of neurodiverse children –
Friendly and authoritative. I love the content of Ellyn Satter’s Child of Mine—so detailed, specific, authoritative, genuine, and friendly. I wish I had this book to read and re-read when I was starting out!
Meghan Mueller, RD, IBCLC public health nutritionist –
Essential for parents and professionals. Once again, Ellyn Satter provides an essential book for both families and professionals. Helping to both boost confidence and reduce nutrition risk, Satter dares us to trust ourselves and our bodies to feed ourselves and our families with good sense.
Rachel Gerathy, Dietitian –
Frees parents from guilt. Ellyn Satter’s book shows how the shift from control to trust in feeding frees parents and carers from pressure and guilt and allows feeding to be successful. We make Satter’s messages front and center in our successful New South Wales, Australia, population health program.
Michaela Trautman, PhD, UW Madison –
A consummate story-teller Ellyn Satter’s stories about the adventures and challenges of real parents and real children teach what positive feeding looks like, how it appears when it isn’t working, and how to fix it. As a parent and nutrition researcher, I find Ellyn Satter’s Child of Mine: Nurturing a Joyful and Confident Eater to be an entertaining and trustworthy companion to raising my son with eating.
Tamberly Powell, MS, RDN, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR –
Forever grateful to Ellyn Satter and her work! I can’t say enough how Ellyn Satter’s work has positively influenced my life! I began teaching Family Food and Nutrition at the college level when my first daughter was just 3 months old and I was lucky enough to be introduced to her earlier books and models. I implemented the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding raising my two girls and I am happy to say they are now 18 and 16 and both love to eat, love a variety of food, trust their internal regulation, and are gaining contextual skills around food. I know without Ellyn Satter’s guidance I would not have had the courage to do my part with feeding and trust them to do their part with eating.