Are you raising a "good" eater?
August 29th, 2007, 9:31 am · Post a Comment · posted by Michelle May, M.D.
Why is it that once children are old enough to sit at the table many parents will bribe and threaten them to finish all their dinner? When we make our children clean the plate that we filled, we are teaching them to ignore their innate ability to know how much their bodies need. That is a dangerous lesson to learn in a society where food is abundant and most serving sizes are two or three times larger than they need to be.
