Teaching Kids Self-Regulation Skills Around Food: It’s Hard to Leave Well Enough Alone
6 min readMay 7, 2021
I have a confession to make. After working in the field of disordered eating for 25 years, I still made a grave mistake this morning with my own teenagers. I drove into their lane and told them how and what to eat instead of letting them self-regulate. It was not my proudest parent/nutrition therapist moment when my daughters didn’t have the…