Teaching Kids Self-Regulation Skills Around Food

It's Hard to Leave Well Enough Alone

I have a confession to make.

After working in the field of disordered eating for almost thirty years, I still made a grave mistake one morning with my own teenagers. I drove into their lane and told them how and what to eat instead of letting them self-regulate. It was not my proudest parent/nutrition-therapist moment when I said, “I didn’t buy avocados…