Child of Mine Quotes

“Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.”
― Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense

“If a struggle emerges about eating, a toddler will get so involved in the struggle and so upset that it overwhelms her need to eat. This observation is just as true of struggles about potty training, what to wear, school work, and so on. Throughout your child’s growing-up years, it is important to matter-of-factly set the limits and avoid the emotional fireworks and struggles. Learning to do this with feeding will help you in other areas as well.”
― Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense

“In brief, it states that parents are responsible for the what, when, and where of feeding, and children are responsible for the how much and whether of eating. At the time, it was revolutionary to insist that children know how much they needed to eat and that all children, even “too thin” or “too fat” children, must be allowed to eat as little or as much as they want.”
― Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense

“A 1956 professional journal article recommended solid foods on the second or third day of life and encouraged omitting the night feeding by age 15 days. After that, the infants were to continue on three meals per day.1 This nutritional underprotection extended to the milk feeding as well, with many professionals recommending infants be shifted at 3 or 4 months from formula or breastmilk to 2 percent milk.”
― Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense