As a parent, orchestrating a healthy family environment around food and eating is never easy. Our children regularly encounter societal messages of what and how to eat to make their bodies thin, trim, slim, buff, strong or otherwise -ideal.- Add unhealthy foods and you've got a recipe for disaster. The tips in this book provide parental tools to encourage eating that's healthy and fun, enhancing the pleasure of family life when it comes to food, eating, and body image.

Everyone is bombarded with pressures to eat (or not eat) in ways that have nothing to do with simple hunger. And as...