Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-By-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding Disorders, Paperback

In "Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating," a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child s nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child "and" you) once and for all.

Are you parenting a child with extreme picky eating? Do you worry your child isn t getting the nutrition he or she needs? Are you tired of fighting over food, suspect that what you ve tried may be making things worse, but don t know how to help? Having a child with extreme picky eating is frustrating and sometimes scary. Children with feeding disorders, food aversions, or selective eating often experience anxiety around food, and the power struggles can negatively impact your relationship with your child. Children with extreme picky eating can also miss out on parties or camp because they can t find safe foods. But you don t have to choose between fighting over every bite and only serving a handful of safe foods for years on end.

"Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating" offers hope, even if your child has failed feeding therapies before. After gaining a foundation of understanding of your child s challenges and the dynamics at play, you ll be ready for the 5 steps (built around the clinically proven STEPS+ approachSupportive Treatment of Eating in PartnershipS) that transform feeding and meals so your child can learn to enjoy a variety of foods in the right amounts for healthy growth. You ll discover specific strategies for dealing with anxiety, low appetite, sensory challenges, autism spectrum-related feeding issues, oral motor delay, and medically-based feeding problems. Tips and exercises reinforce what you ve learned, and dozens of scripts help you respond to your child in the heat of the moment, as well as to others in your child s life (grandparents or your child s teacher) as you help them support your family on this journey. This book will prove an invaluable guide to restore peace to your dinner table and help you raise a healthy eater."