Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming

“Your Child’s Weight is much needed, for those of us feeling berated into doing something but end up ignoring weight issues for fear of doing more harm than good.” James McGuire, MD, FAAP, Pediatrician

“Just what we need to help folks who have been scared into thinking they need to make drastic changes to manage their kids eating and take weight off them as soon as possible.”-Carol Walsh, MS, RD, CD, LDE

‘Brilliant! Your Child’s Weight totally changes everything you thought you knew about child weight management! Satter’s emphasis on providing, not depriving, supports good parenting.”-Patty Nell Morse, RD, CDE

“Awesome, must read for anyone struggling with or worried about their child’s size. This helped to decrease anxiety and struggle in our house and the approach is loving and affirming. And, if you follow the advice, it works. Ellyn Satter is the authority on child fooding. If you focus on weight loss or try to control how much your kids eat, it will fail. This is a model of healthy eating and common sense.”-Katja Rowell, MD

“I was incredibly grateful to discover this book, and Ellyn Satter’s work generally. It is full of detailed advice about feeding your family, focusing on health and family relationships, not weight. It has given me permission to feed my kids well, and teach them how to have a good relationship with food. It is a voice of sanity in a world which is pretty hysterical about eating.”-Baby Boot Camp

“Wonderful book by a world-class dietitian. As a registered dietitian myself, I go to Ellyn Satter whenever it comes to questions about pediatric nutrition. I purchased this for my own personal reference. It is a wonderful resource.” -Dietitian

“I was so moved when Your Child’s Weight described my own childhood troubles with food. This book is helping me reparent myself into a healthier and kinder relationship with food.”-Katherine, parent

“One of my children was eating too much and two were underweight. Your Child’s Weight helped tremendously: All three are now growing well and the weight they are meant to be.”-Catherine, parent

Satter focuses on health and family relationships, not weight. It has given me permission to feed my kids well let them have a good relationship with food. I recommend this book to any parent or health professional who wants to understand the healthy feeding relationship and how to support a child’s natural ability to eat competently. Eating disorder specialist A voice of sanity in a world which is hysterical about eating. Read Your Child’s Weight before you put your child on a diet. It looks at the emotional side of children and their weight and sheds light on why so many children have eating disorders earlier in life. Educator I learned from this book that many of the things my husband and I were doing WERE harming her and setting her up for full-blown obesity in the future. Parent I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Following Your Child’s Weight principles, my food-preoccupied, too-rapidly-growing preschooler slimmed down and is relaxed about eating. Parent

If your goal is to have a slim child, you are looking for the magic diet and ready to do whatever it takes to achieve that, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you are willing to stow your agenda about your child’s size and shape, shoulder your responsibilities with respect to feeding and parenting and raise your child to get the body that is right for them, read on. If, in fact, like a lot of parents you were reluctant to pick this book up because you dread even entertaining the thought that your child might have a weight problem and that you have to do something about it, with all the misery that entails, this is the book for you.