Food & Home
Great Strategies for Picky Eaters
Kids can be picky eaters which can make it hard to feed them healthy foods like fruits and veggies. We have some ideas to help!
Health & Safety
Kids and Weight Issues: What can we do?
More children are dealing with weight problems, and they’re dealing with them at younger and younger ages. What’s your take on childhood weight gain?
Health & Safety
How To Get Your Kids To Eat Healthier
If you only feed your baby healthy food, they won’t know that junk exist- well, at least until they start school and see what the other kids are eating.
Baby
Food & the Sensory-Sensitive Child
One mom’s fight to take the garbage out…of her kids’ mouths.
Health & Safety
How To Navigate the Supermarket Like a Nutritionist
There are many guides to eating healthfully out there, but here are five easy-to-remember tips as you make your way down the supermarket aisle.
Food & Home
They Have No Idea That It Is Good For Them
My kids love to eat junk food. I want them to eat healthy food. Why not healthy food that pretends to be junk food? That would be a great switch, wouldn’t it?
Food & Home
Healthy Snack: Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Pita Chips
I have a new weapon in my never ending quest to find healthy snacks that excite my kids — fruit salsa with cinnamon pita chips. This recipe is crazy simple — it’s basically just a finely chopped fruit salad — but it’s fast to pull together and everyone in my house loves it.
Health & Safety
Dieting In The Wake Of Anorexia
Years of trying to send the “food is awesome!” message while my child struggled with anorexia left me unhealthy; now I have to figure out healthy dieting.
Health & Safety
A Daycare Food Dilemma
A mom is really happy with the care provided by her kids’ in-home daycare provider. However, she is concerned about the lunch and snack options they are offering her toddlers. Is she overreacting and what are her options?
Health & Safety
The Satter Method & Sick Kids
A mom needs advice with her young child’s food habits after a recent medical diagnosis.
Health & Safety
Is My Toddler Dehydrated?
A mom is returning to work full-time and will be leaving her toddler at daycare and is concerned that his reluctance to drink may increase there leading to dehydration. What can she do prevent these problems?
Young Child
Picky Eating & Mom Guilt
A WOHM mom doesn’t want to engage in a mealtime battle with her young picky eater because she wants a pleasant dinnertime experience but is experiencing guilt about his limited food palate. What can she do?
Food & Home
Cooking For (& With) Kids: Citrus Sweet Potatoes, Two Ways
By popular demand, Amalah shares with us the homemade foods that are most popular with her kids and easiest to make from scratch. First up, transforming sweet potatoes into tots and a delicious side serving of mash.
Food & Home
Citrus Sweet Potato Pinwheels for the Lunchbox (Cooking For & With Kids)
Amalah shows you how to make the of leftovers from her popular kids’ recipe of citrus mashed sweet potatoes.
Postpartum
Bounce Back: Must-Have Healthy Postpartum Snacks
Following the birth of your child you NEED TO EAT. And you need to eat well, and regularly. Here are our fave postpartum healthy snacks.
Health & Safety
The Overfeeding MIL…and the Overweight Child
A mom needs advice on dealing with a loving mother-in-law/grandmother who is overfeeding her child who is on a healthy plan via doctor’s orders.
Health
Being a Parent Gave Me a BLT (Bites, Licks, Tastes) Habit!
It’s easy to get into a habit of BLTs (bites, licks and tastes) and consuming many unwanted calories while we prepare our children’s dinner. Here’s how to stop.
Young Child
The Child Who Eats Too Little
A child has always eaten very little but now he’s fallen off the growth charts and isn’t keeping up physically and socially with his peers. What should the mom do when her pediatrician insists everything is “fine”?
Food & Home
Build a Healthier Nugget for Kids: Double Cauliflower Turkey Nuggets Recipe
Amalah shows you how to make your own nuggets for kids that are not only packed with vitamins and low in sodium, but are less expensive than the store-bought version as well.
Toddler
Toddler Dinnertime vs. Parent Work Schedules
Are nutritious and joint family dinners possible when both parents have busy work schedules and your toddler has an early bedtime?