How to Raise an Intuitive Eater

Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence

By: Sumner Brooks, Amee Severson

Narrated by: Erin Dion

Kids are born intuitive eaters.

Well-meaning parents, influenced by the diet culture that surrounds us all, are often concerned about how to best feed their children. Nearly everyone is talking about what to do about the childhood obesity epidemic. Meanwhile, every proposed solution for how to feed kids to promote health and prevent weight-related health concerns don’t mention the importance of one thing: a healthy relationship with food. The consequences can be disastrous and are indistinguishable from the predictable and well-researched impact that dieting has on adults. Weight cycling, low self-esteem, deviations from normal growth, and eating disorders are just some of the negative health effects children can experience from the fear-based approach to food and eating that has become the norm in our culture.

Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson believe that parents want the best for their kids and know a parent’s job is to make them feel safe in the world and their bodies. They want them to grow up to be competent, healthy eaters, living their best lives in the bodies they were born to have. Intuitive Eating is more talked about than ever, and the time is now to make sure parents truly understand what it means to raise an intuitive eater. With a compassionate and relatable voice, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater is the only book of its kind to teach parents what they need to know to improve health, happiness, and wellbeing for the littlest among us.

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Valuable Information!

As an RD2BE and someone who as recovered from an eating disorder, this book is extremely valuable information for any parent to be!!! Pregnant with my first child and so thankful for a book like this to guide me with raising a child who won’t have to deal with the same mindset I grew up with!! Well written, a must read!!

Polarizing topic

(dictates through voice to text) I like many of the topics that were brought up but I strongly disagree with the authors view on nutrition overall. I strongly disagreed with caloric density being more important than nutritional density. I will take many of the topics in this book and become a practitioner of it with my five-year-old daughter while keeping in mind that whole foods are more nutritionally dense than processed foods. Thank you so much for this amazing book and I will highly recommend this to others.

Life Changing for My Grandchildren and for Myself.

I was born in 1956. Was raised as a white middle class girl among 7 children - 3 girls and 4 boys. I was the only one who grew up with “Chubby Girl” issues beginning in 5th grade. I was sexually abused beginning in 5th grade and that set me off on a path of getting fat in an attempt to fend off others from hurting me and then dieting forever to ward off the criticism from my parents and teasing from other students for being overweight. Geez! Can’t win for losing!
I’m 67 now, and finally at the weight goal I chased and adjective of “tiny” I craved. How did I do it? By 2 body altering surgeries (Gastric Sleeve in 2014 and Gastric Bypass in 2022). No way to achieve where I’m at. But that’s how I got here. Yes, with many dietary and lifestyle changes, but so not think I’d be here (weight wise) without the 2 surgeries as well.
I am hoping, praying, and educating myself in an attempt to save my granddaughters (ages 7 and 10) and future other grandchildren and possible great grandchildren from living a life of perpetually hating their bodies and starving themselves chasing the dream of the socially defined perfect body. I hope they will learn to love and accept themselves in the body they are in for the magnificent persons they are. I hope this book helps me lead them in that direction.
I was looking on Amazon today for the workbook that was mentioned/recommended in Chapter 14. Unfortunately the authors did not reference the workbook or mention who the authors of the recommended workbook are/is. There are 2-3 possible workbook choices listed for purchase on Amazon. I don’t want to buy the wrong one. I’ll research this week and see if I can determine which is the one that is recommended by the 2 nutritionist who wrote “How to Raise an Intuitive Eater.” ThNk you much for writing this wonderful, life altering guide. Bravo!

leftist ideologies

I made it two chapters and couldn't continue. I am desperately trying to learn about Eating Disorders because we are in shit storm of one with my 13 yr old daughter. This book hits on bad white men, thin privilege, and more. We have enough to deal with without tteaching my daughter to hate her father who is a good man! Do yourself a favor and move on to "Eight Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder" and starting getting tips/actions/activities to actually help.