Toddler
The 10-Minute Eater
Help! My toddler is highly distracted at dinnertime and will only eat for 10 minutes unless I can entertain them. I think that’s a bad habit to establish. Suggestions?
Toddler
The Dinnertime Dance (and Some News For Satter Fans)
How to handle your toddler’s dinnertime shenanigans when they think dinnertime is an opportunity to play in and out of their high chair. Also, a surprise notice for Ellyn Satter fans.
Toddler
How To Stop the Picky Eating Monster
How to help the parent of a toddler who once enjoyed eating her foods at her highchair who now refuses food after food and runs from the dinner table.
Toddler
The Good Eater Regression
A toddler starts rejecting more foods from her mom’s dinner repertoire. Is this normal and how can she get her young child’s diet back on track?
Young Child
The Satter Method In Real Life
Applying the Satter Method to common real life feeding situations with kids. Amalah answers your questions.
Toddler
Toddler Mealtime Battles: The Dinner Table Escape Artist
How do you handle a toddler who is a good eater but seeking negative attention at mealtime now that there is a new sibling in the picture?
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?
Products & Services
Best Meal Kit Delivery Services for Families to Solve the Daily Dinner Grind (we tested 9 of the most popular ones)
Wondering which meal kit delivery service might be right for your family? An experienced family cook (of picky teens) tried most of them and gives you the 411.
Big Kid
Gearing up for College: College Dining Meal Plan Options
You thought your kid getting into college was the end of the decision-making, but now you have a whole new set of decisions to make! Like, college dining plans.
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”?
Toddler
Raising a Kid With Restaurant Manners (and Managing Behavior Expectations, Too)
A mom wants to know what she should expect as typical behavior and expectations from her toddler when eating out at a restaurant. Amalah chimes in with effective strategies for a good overall experience, as well.
Food & Home
The 10 Commandments of Drama-Free School Night Dinners
Feeding your family shouldn’t be a slog. Here’s my 10 commandments for getting dinner on the table with a minimum of drama on busy school nights.
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
3 Easy Post-Pool Dinners for Hot Summer Evenings
Here are some of my favorite simple, kid-friendly, 15-minute dinners for those days you are burnt out from spending hours by the pool or at the beach.
Health & Safety
Fighting Cultural Food Wars
An expat mom is trying to avoid power struggles with her family-by-marriage and now toddler son (too) over the amount and regularity of sweets and unhealthy foods being served in her new and adopted home country.
Toddler
Setting Time Limits at the Table
Mealtimes drag on and on at this young family’s home. The kids are just having fun and enjoying themselves at the table, but their mom would prefer them to enjoy the outdoors. How can she improve the situation without being a nag?
Toddler
On Second Helpings, Satter & Upping the Dinner Ante
A mom has been following the Satter Method with her toddler at mealtime but is stumped about second helpings and needs some advice about making sure her young one gets enough protein and veggies in his diet.
Food & Home
The Family Dinner That Changed Our Family Dinners
“Let’s try the Family Dinner Project idea with the kids, have a ‘real family discussion’ and see how it goes,” So last night, we did. And it was awesome.
Toddler
How to Solve Your Toddler Mealtime Battles With Snacks
An older toddler is refusing dinner after being well throughout the day. However, he is going to bed and waking up ravenous. How can his parents help him without succumbing to this dinnertime power struggle?
Toddler
Breaking Bad Family Mealtime Habits
A mom needs help breaking a bad mealtime habit with her toddler so she can have the healthy family dinner time they all deserve and need.