Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN
Registered dietitian and founder of Kids Eat in Color
Laura Petix, MS, OTR/L
Neurodivergent pediatric occupational therapist and founder of The OT Butterfly
Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life
Most parents assume feeding their children will be the easy part. Then come the standoffs over vegetables, the bribes with dessert, the separate meals made just to avoid a fight. Or a child comes home saying a friend told her bread makes you fat, and a parent freezes, unsure what to say. Every parent wants to feed their kids well, but between picky eating, battles with sugar, confusing nutrition headlines, and the fear of saying the wrong thing about food or bodies, it’s hard to feel confident about any of it.
In Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life, registered dietitian Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN, offers an evidence-based guide to feeding children from their first bites of solid food through the teen years. Rather than another recipe book, it teaches parents how to think about feeding, with the words, scripts, and tools to handle the hardest moments without guilt or a demand for perfection. Anderson shows how to talk about food without planting the seeds of diet culture; how to approach sugar, snacks, and treats at home, at birthday parties, and at Grandma’s house; what to do when a child refuses vegetables or gags on textures; how to respond when doctors, relatives, or other kids bring up weight; and how to cut through confusing nutrition headlines to focus on what truly matters.
Anderson is the founder of Kids Eat in Color and holds a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins. She will be in conversation with Laura Petix, MS, OTR/L, a neurodivergent pediatric occupational therapist who specializes in sensory processing. Petix is the founder of The OT Butterfly, and author of The Sensory Code.
This event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
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