Tips for Peaceful Family Mealtimes Tip One: Never force your child to eat or clean their plate, bargain, punish, threaten, reward, coax, negotiate, or strongly encourage your child to eat. By doing this, you are setting yourself up for a show down with your child and making extra work for yourself. Tip Two: Ignore refusals,…
Interview with Colleen McNamara Cimador
After the talk on Thursday evening, Colleen McNamara Cimador took some time to answer a few questions about her journey of hope and recovery. She is a certified holistic health coach and mother of a child who was diagnosed with food allergies, sensory processing disorder, and many other neurosensory disorders. Together, she and…
Lunchroom Noise, Does it Really Matter?
Common concerns over short lunch periods, appropriate seating, and the challenge of nutritional choices in school lunches are common. But have you considered the effect of the noise in the cafeteria on healthy food choices? Susan Gross, PhD, MPH of John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has, and her results (2014) may give us…
