Optimizing Your Child's Eating Habits Healthy Bite #2

Division of Responsibility – Understanding the responsibilities of the parent and the child at mealtimes will help both to feel confident at the dinner table. Your job as a parent is to provide a meal and snack SCHEDULE (when and where to eat) for your child as well as provide them with HEALTHY CHOICES. It is your child’s responsibility to decide HOW MUCH and whether he/she will eat at all. Trust that your child will eat according to appetite and focus on quality not quantity. In the long term, bribing, threatening and rewarding your child over food generally does not help your child like healthy foods.