How to Raise a Mindful Eater: 8 Powerful Principles for Transforming Your Child's Relationship with Food

Raising a Mindful Eater in a Mindless Eating World

Whether your child is obsessed with sweets, a big (or small) eater, or you simply want to avoid future eating problems, you are in the right place. In How to Raise a Mindful Eater, family nutrition expert Maryann Jacobsen shows you step-by-step how to nurture your child's emerging relationship with food. The book pinpoints 8 Powerful Principles that give you the best shot at raising a mindful eater, someone who listens to their body, eats for nourishment and enjoyment, and naturally eats in moderation.

The book will teach you how to:

- Encourage an Internal Approach to Eating: Discover how to structure meals, set limits, help children eat based on internal cues of hunger and fullness, and pay attention while eating.
- Balance Food for Nourishment and Enjoyment: Find lasting ways to make nutrition rewarding, sweets less desirable, and eating well a pleasurable experience.
- Teach Body Appreciation and Self Care: Uncover secrets to teaching body appreciation, dealing with weight issues, combating the media's Thin Ideal, and nurturing self care.
- Ensure Mental and Emotional Happiness: Escape barriers to raising mindful eaters such as stress, poor self-regulation, dealing with difficult feelings, and a lack of connection between parent and child.


About the Author

"Finally! Maryann's How to Raise a Mindful Eater takes feeding kids to the next level-intentional and thoughtful approaches to raise kids who eat with thought and intention." -- Jill Castle, MS, RDN, author of "Eat Like a Champion"

Maryann Jacobsen has written an extremely helpful book in which she explains the truth about nutrition, and gives guidelines on how to raise kids to have a healthy attitude towards food, facilitating intuitive eating and mindfulness. As a parent and as a clinician who specializes in food, weight, and body image issues, I find this book tremendously helpful -- Dr. Nina Savelle-Rocklin, psychoanalyst, author, eating disorder specialist

Maryann Jacobsen MS, RD has balanced science, research and common sense to write a book about mindful eating that will completely transform your families diet. This book is a fabulous way to bring mindful eating fully into the home. -- Megrette Fletcher M.Ed., RD, . CDE, co-founder of The Center for Mindful Eating and author of "Discover Mindful Eating for Kids"

How to Raise A Mindful Eater is such a wonderful resource for parents looking to give their kids a healthy relationship with food from the get-go. I really recommend this book to parents. -- Kara Buetel, MS, Nutrition Coach and creator of Raising Nutrition

How to Raise a Mindful Eater" is such a breath of fresh air. In it, Maryann guides you toward developing a way of looking at feeding your children which is not reactionary. Instead, she shows you how to take the big picture into consideration, for the present moment and the future. A must-read for all parents, whether your children are little or big! -- Katja Leccisi, MS, RDN, Author of "How to Feed Your Kids"

How to Raise a Mindful Eater offers sound, sane and compassionate advice for shepherding kids to a healthy relationship with food and their bodies, and at the same time reminds the adults how we can benefit from the mindful practices of self-care and self-love that Maryann has so beautifully laid out for us all. This book is truly a must-read! -- Tricia Nelson, Certified Coach and author of "Heal Your Hunger"