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Feeding Responsibilities
What You Can Do as a Parent

• Parents are responsible for providing wholesome, appealing food at predictable times and in a pleasant atmosphere.

• Children are responsible for picking and choosing from what parents have made available and eating as much or as little as they want.

• Offer a variety of healthful and tasty foods. Be adventurous!
   

• Serve meals and snacks on a regular schedule.
   

• Make mealtimes pleasant. Happy encounters with food help set the stage for sensible eating habits throughout life.
   

• Food needs to be used as nourishment, not as a reward or punishment such as:
  "Clean your Plate"
  "No dessert until you eat your vegetables"
  "If you behave you can have a piece of candy"
   

• Food bribery usually creates more problems that it solves.
   

• Children's bodies are self-regulatory. Externally controlling a child's eating or restricting  food is unnecessary and unhealthy.
   

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• Studies have shown that children followed into the future were fatter when they had feeding problems early on and when their parents were preoccupied with keeping them from being fat.