Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes: Practical and Compassionate Strategies for Mealtime Peace

by Marsha Dunn Klein Otr/L Med Faota

How can grasshoppers help parents and feeding professionals teach anxious eaters about new foods? Marsha Dunn Klein, an internationally-known feeding therapist, provides the answer in this book-highlighting that most anxious eaters do not enjoy the sensations and varibility of new foods. In seeking to help them, she asks what you'd need to do to help yourself try a worrisome new food, such as a grasshopper.

Drawing on her own experience trying grasshoppers while learning Spanish in Mexico, she personalizes the struggle of children to find new food enjoyment, providing a goldmine of practical, proven, and compassionate strategies for parents and professionals who work with anxious eaters. Learn how to:

- find peace and enjoyment during mealtimes;
- find ways to help anxious eaters fearlessly try new foods;
- navigate the sensory variations in food smells, tastes, textures looks, sounds: and
- help anxious eaters (and their parents) develop a more positive relationship with food.

Because parents are absolutely central to mealtime success, the author incorporates parent insights throughout the book. Using encouragement, novelty, and fun, she invites everyone back to the table with a sensitive and pressure-free approach.

Genres: Parenting

416 pages, Paperback

Published July 29, 2019

Reviews

[Maggie Buckhannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some really awesome strategies in this book to move kiddos along in their journey with highly selective eating. A bit repetitive and dry at times but a wealth of knowledge. Will be a great resource I can use in therapy sessions and to recommend some parents read. My only complaint is that there is no table of contents and numbered chapters which might make finding info difficult.

[Kenzie McLaughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marsha discussed a variety of strategies for using systematic desensitization & honoring the child’s cues/ preferences throughout this book. Concepts were repeated in several ways to ensure reader understanding.