Child-Nutrition Books

The nutrition advice in this book is very similar to the typical pregnancy book guidelines, but one difference, no chicken, beef, fish or pork.

The book starts out with a highly flawed and dangerous perspective on vegetarianism. It talks about macrobiotics, which in some cases people are now adding some fish, but she only encourages the vegan approach. It talks about the China study, the highly flawed and bias study that aims to related disease to eating meat. Even though most people in China are NOT vegetarian. She explains that Japanese people have a vegetarian cuisine, but again, traditional Japanese diets are totally loaded with sea foods including the organs. Saying that pacific islanders, Hawaiians and Marquesans were vegetarian or that they fed their children only vegetarian food is an outright lie. In fact some pacific islanders purposely avoided certain plant foods and fruits and purposely chose to eat the animals that ate the fruits. Pacific island diets were loaded with sea foods of all forms. In fact, there is little or know documentation that any indigenous group, living on their native diet were vegetarian.

The information is twisted because she talks about the importance of fat-soluble vitamins, which are primarily found in animal fats. There is a way to be healthier as vegetarian, but it's not discussed in the book.

For example, grains need to be prepared in traditional ways to maximize assimilation. Dairy should be raw, not pasteurized, and from cows eating rapidly growing grass. Large quantities of eggs (like a dozen a day for pregnant women) and extremely high quality raw butter are needed to attempt to produce a healthy child.

I speak from first hand experience as well as interviewing many vegetarian and vegan mothers. Due to a vegetarian style, even though we did eat a small amount of fish, our first daughter developed severe tooth cavities. Other mom's have had their young children develop cavities on a similar diet. It took my spouse 1 year to recover from a natural birth, for example, due to depletion from a mostly vegetarian diet and lifestyle prior to conception and during pregnancy. Vegetarianism is really Russian Roulette with our children's health. Happy, and healthy babies, especially in today's modern world filled with foods that are grown on depleted soils, require at least an extremely exact vegetarian program, but more realistically, a program that includes at least sea foods. Done with care and in an ethical way, these foods provide our children with the possibility for abundant health. Choosing vegetarianism for our children, is choosing a mental utopia, instead of choosing real health.

Review is by Ramiel Nagel author of Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6) & Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition (First Edition).

Enlightening, beneficial,expert advise on raising a vegan/vegetarian baby/child. It is full of useful information to parents raising vegan children. It has menus on what to feed the children, serving amounts, amongst much much more information on the vegan lifestyle. I highly recommend this book.

Very good book on raising a veggie baby. It gave alot of great statistics and facts that helped me feel reassured that raising my son veggie was the right thing. Great ideas on feeding too. Would be a great book for anyone who is worried that being vegetarian might be unhealthy or to give to others who feel you are doing the wrong thing. :)

Once you get past the beginning part of the book that is pretty much tables and charts of nutrients, this book gets quite interesting and actually readable. This is a terrific resource for parents in need of support when choosing a vegetarian or vegan diet for their child.

As a vegetarian mom I worry about doing everything right for my little 5 month old. It's nice to read so many pros and get some good info on what to look out for.

If you work with parents in any capacity who are trying to raise fit kids, this is a great read for them. I recommend it. It can created a nice discussion between parent and child and give guidance to parents who may lack understanding for themselves, as well, as to how to get fit and healthy!

This book is a fantastic guideline for helping your kids learn how to listen to their bodies!!! I recommend it to anyone....even if you don't have kids!

Employing faith to educate your children on their dietary choices is all well and good, but the cover of this book gives no indication of its faith-based approach, instead just popping out with it upon opening to a random page, and therefore does not meet the needs of all families.

Disappointed by this book. Too religious for my tastes. Sample:

When God finished creating humankind, He didn't say "It's okay" or "It's not bad." Not at all. Instead, God looked at what He created and said "It is very good" (Gen, 1:31). We suspect you believe that there is no child in the world as wonerful as your own. But did you realize that your child is God's masterpiece-an awesome, intrcate cration designed for health and wholeness?

I prefer to keep religon out of my nutritional guidance. For a reader like me, this sort of writing is more distracting than helpful. Ended up giving away this book rather than attempting to finish it.

America carries the banner as the fattest nation in the world - a banner that isn't carried proudly, and rightfully so. "Raising Fit Kids in a Fat World" is a thoroughly researched and informative guidebook for parents for making sure that their children do not simply become a member of the large growing statistic on America's large growing waistline. Packed cover to cover with tips to help parents fight obesity in simply the best way they can - preventative. Encouraging children to eat the right foods and when to eat them alongside encouraging stronger and more vigorous physical activity, among other advice. "Raising Fit Kids in a Fat World" is essential to community library parenting collections and for any parents seeking to set their kids on good weight keeping habits for life.

I came across this book while visiting with friends who kept this book handy on their kitchen counter. Over the course of two weeks I was able to browse and review the book. I found it to be a good collection of basic recipes for babies and toddlers. Other reviewers stated it was basic, redundant, etc. Not a bad thing, really-- I am ordering it now as a source for ideas and no nonsense recipes. For any parent who wants to feed their baby something homemade, but worries that they will have sufficient time or creativity--this book is a perfect start. Note: I will also be purchasing "Mommy Made" as a companion, as I felt that MM takes baby cooking to a more sophisticated, original level that Everything was lacking.

As a new mom this book is good for basics but light on details. I found
myself having to buy other books once my son was ready for solids.
I also felt the information jumped around a lot; it would have been nice to have it organized more month to month rather than topic to topic.
Not a bad choice but don't expect to be your only book on food.
Good luck!

I regret buying this book, since it promised to cover different topics, providing lots of different meals ideas, and it is mostly theoretical and has almost no recipes. If you need theory buy this book, but common sense, obvious theory. If you want ideas for your babies meals look for something else.

This book is a must for all first time mothers and fathers. It gives detailed information on how to feed your baby from birth to toddler with excellent examples and food product information. My husband and I especially found the alternatives to junk food section very helpful. We want to feed our daughter healthy food, and now we know the healthy altenatives to junk food. Also, this book gives examples on how to pack healthy lunches and snacks. Bravo!!!

From the title, I thought I was getting lots of suggestions about foods to prepare for the beginning eater to toddler. I have rasied all my own children and now my children and their friends are having their first babies. I remembered how I poured over baby "cook books" to learn how to prepare good, simple, tasty and inexpensive food for my children. I want to give the same resources to new mothers. This book looks like it will give you lots of ideas but it contains much of the same material you find in "the first (second etc) year of your child's life" which is a wonderful series. Sorry but I was not impressed.

I had thought that I knew a lot about the care and feeding of parakeets, this book showed me much more.

Some of the information is great, but it still left me with questions. So the title "A Complete Pet Owner's Manual" is misleading.
It does have good information on diet and health and exercise.
But it seems like an overview. But I was looking for more than an overview. The title should be "Parakeets, an overview for the new owner" More details please!

I LOVE this BOOK! It is quite informative. I do wish to obtain additional books on parakeets.

I wish these books had been around when I was growing up! i LOVE these animals. Their so cretive and unique in their own little ways thought they really are n ot small at all!
Thanak you.

Unfortunately, Barron's has a tendency to publish same-subject books in both this series and in their top-of-the-line "Handbook" series, and the topic of Parakeets is no exception. They have, in fact, printed two books on Parakeets in this series (one about Budgies, which are the same species) and a Parakeet Handbook (which is co-authored by both of the writers involved in this series' books).

Annette Wolter's style is one that is easy-to-read, but it is still quite informative. Had I not read "The Parakeet Handbook" first, I would have learned much from this book. However, as it is reasonably priced, well-written and informative, I can recommend it with few reservations.

Authored by Annette Wolter, this manual on parakeets was published in 1999. There are 87 pages. Eight chapters are contained. Numerous color photos and black-and-white drawings are provided. Also, an index is included. The anecdotes the author supplies are informative. Examples of topics covered are tips on purchasing, bathing, care, toys, diet, health, breeding, cages, taming, teaching the parakeet how to talk, intelligence, and behavior. I find the chapter focusing on behavior to be instructive and fascinating. In addition, two tables are displayed; one deals with dangers to the parakeet, while the other deals with health problems. The color photos of the parakeets are pleasing. As for the black-and-white drawings, they are impressive and educational. I recommend this manual.

This book has many good tips and is quite reassuring. I do have some concerns, but the "Revised and Updated" version I have may not be the most recent, as the latest copyright date I see in it is 1996.

One concern is that she suggests peanut butter and peanut recipes for infants and toddlers, which is currently NOT recommended due to serious allergy risks. Another concern is that she discusses weaning fairly early, at 3 to 6 months. While this is an option for many mothers, it is not optimal and the Peds people are now recommending delaying the introduction of solids until *at least* 6 months (again, allergies). Also, the first suggestion she provides for 4-6 month old infants is juice, which is not usually not very healthy (unless you make your own or buy flash pasturized, etc.).

These are just a few issues I had with the book that I recall off the top of my head. Still, I think it has many great recipes. Hopefully the newer revision(s) addresses these issues.

This book had some good info about nutrition, and good sample recipes, but I thought a lot of the info was too general - it covered a lot of things that I wasn't interested in. Never went in depth enough, just kind of short blurbs on general baby care, which is not what I was looking for in this book. It also seemed a bit dated, and used a lot of British terms, rather than American.

The focus of this book is primarily introducing foods to baby and keeping the food choices vegetarian. It also offers some other baby care tips.

Perhaps it is different in England, but some of the foods she suggests (carrots, spinach) are not recc. in the US for home preparation because of the nitrate content.

Attachment parenting fans will find some suggestions iffy. For instance...

The suggestion that potty training is not possible before 18 mos. runs contrary to what we're doing with our duaghter. Infant potty training is possible (see: Laurie Boucke's books). You can start to potty train any time you are ready to teach.

The book also suggests modified "crying it out" for getting the baby to sleep, and seems to lean to moving the baby into the crib and sleeping independently sooner than is reasonbable. Co-sleeping families are not addressed.

Weaning is suggested at 4-6 mos. and although she includes nursing in her schedules, I don't feel like the tone of the book gives terribly strong support to nursing to the year or beyond.

I found the suggestion of giving a baby carrot or apple to chew on but staying nearby in case they break a piece off a choke silly -- just don't offer it in the first place! They do make teething rings that do not break!

Some of the suggestions were useful -- keeping baby in simple clothing, avoiding too fancy party frocks, not fully bathing a newborn daily but every other day and "top and tail" on the non-bath days, freezing food in ice cube trays, etc.

On the food chapters -- the recipes suitable for freezing are marked with a star, and there's a nice variety to the recipes. Be cautious about allergenic foods -- I feel these aren't marked well enough.

Overall -- a decent book for vegetarian babies, but it takes careful reading. "Super Baby Food" by Ruth Yaron would be a better pick.

This is the only book any mother,vegetarian or not, will need for navigateing the mysterious world of feeding babies without depending on commercial baby food. Rose Elliot's book is clearly divided into easy to read and find sections for age appropriate foods, cautionary foods, nutritional requirements and even complete menus with quick recipies.

I successfully used this book to start my first (non vegetarian) daughter on the road to good nutrition and now 14 years later, I am relying on it again for my 2nd. daughter.

This book is helpful in its simplisity and reassuring in its detailed nutritional information. Without any extra time or trouble any busy mother can use variations of the same foods listed in this book to wean her baby, feed her toddler and serve her whole family tasty healthy meals. This book would make a perfect shower gift!

Although this book does give many good recipies and great meal plans for mamma and baby, I found some of the advice to be not so helpful. "Don't ever heat your baby's food in the microwave..." Then YOU come over and entertain my child while I light a safety candle underneath the pot to heat up his lunch! Also, some of the advice contradicts many pediatricians with regard to when one should introduce certain foods into a baby's diet. You must use your common sense here. Finally, I think the author should stick to meal plans, recipes and nutrition and leave the babycare advice to someone a bit more qualified than a vegetarian astrologer.

The author really understands why children are sick and what makes them healthy. I disagree with some of the dietary guidelines, especially the ones recommending soy or tofu, but beyond that, a very clear, easy to understand and excellent book on natural health with mostly accurate information.

Review is by Ramiel Nagel author of Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6) & Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition (First Edition).

I was looking for a book that would give me some basic information on natural remedies for my baby. This book has been OK, but if I was really to follow it I would have to invest in building an entire cupboard of herbs and extracts, something I'm really not ready for.

For example, the remedy for the common cold involves combining up to 8 herbs/extracts, none of which I have or even have heard of. It is very detailed information, but too much for someone who is not ready to dive into the deep end of natural remedies.

Mary Bove has done a masterful job in creating a comprehensive resource for both parents and practitioners. Before subjecting your children to dangerous long-term medications, this book should be considered "first-line therapy." Parents should challange their children's doctors and practitioners should think about the consequences of the overuse of dangerous drug therapy. This book is a great place to start. Dr. Glenn Gero, Holistic Naturopathic Center

I expected to find ways of natural healing with common household ingredients, items. Instead, there were many natural healing recipes with very strange herbs & ingredients that I think are hard to find. It wasn't what I expected.

I am not one of those people that boycotts medical doctors, but I do like to have alternatives to the overabundance of prescription medications out there. This book is great because it gives you information about all sorts of ailments, and different ways to treat them using natural products, as well as ways to measure how much to give to your children.

Enjoying the book very much after receiving it as a present from my mother-in-law. My soon to be 11-month-old loves the recipes for carrots, broccoli, spinach... and I like the recipes, too-- so we share some of her veggies and add some of mom and dad's salmon or chicken, and everyone's at the table and happy. I'm also amazed at how much less expensive it is to prepare organic, healthy baby food.

Our children both adore the recipes in this cookbook. The recipes are really easy to make, and it introduces food items that aren't common on a children's menu (or should I say "a junk food menu" since that's all that ever appears on one).

My daughter loves the creamed spinach recipe, as well as the celery root puree, and our son loves the braised pork with apricots more than any other recipe in the book. He's at a very picky age too, so keeping his palette on the advanced side, versus serving him trash like Gerber and macaroni and cheese, is one of the best ways to avoid him sliding into the land of toddler food.

I am still laughing over a reviewer's complaint that the authors claim their book highlights and utilizes "honest, simple food", when his/her version of "honest, simple food" is Gerber (what a bunch of junk), mac and cheese, mushed up peas, etc. Not only are those foods not honest (ever stop to think about what goes into jarred Gerber food? Boxed mac and cheese? Jarred and boxed food is so inferior to homemade baby food), they're not simple. Mac and cheese from a box and jarred Gerber food are so loaded with preservatives and chemicals to give them shelf life...nothing simple about their ingredient list at all. Even more amusing, this is after he/she admitted to the family pediatrician that the pantry at home was bare bones and he/she wasn't into cooking...hence why the pediatrician suggested this book. Maybe the doc was trying you something, ya think??

I firmly believe that it's ridiculous to prepare separate meals for everyone...toddler food for the little ones, a "real meal" for mom and dad. How can anyone expect their children to like decent food if they don't expose them to it? If anyone is looking for a cookbook for your children that has recipes that are enjoyable for everyone, this is the book for you. The recipes are fantastic, and they really are easy.

The recipes in "Feeding Baby" are hit and miss, because the ingredients are either too difficult to find, or too expensive for most people. The remaining recipes are incredibly tasty, however. I would recommend this book to compliment other baby food books and not as a stand-alone source.

why didn't i think to make such good food for my daughter BEFORE i read this book?! she is 9 mos. and every recipe i've tried from this book has been a hit with her and me and my husband. we can all sit down together for an enjoyable meal. what a treat!

to those who may find the ingredients elusive or expensive, simply substitute what you do have in season or available. modify the recipes as you need to, just remember, your baby wants to eat what you eat, and you will find these recipes DELICIOUS and easy.

Our goal was to raise our daughter to be a willing and adventurous eater, and to steer her clear of the usual all-American pitfalls of corn syrup, sugars, salts, etc that come with jarred baby food and formula (she never had any of that...perhaps a spoonful of rice cereal before we tossed it all out). This cookbook is very much about raising children in a foodie family, where the adults aren't eating processed foods, and are more likely to be getting fresh and rare items for the kitchen. The recipes themselves are almost immaterial - I think the real asset in this book is how beautifully it promotes a very European ethic in feeding your children properly, not bringing up picky eaters and spending too much money on "for kids" branded foods loaded with yech. The proof of its value to me (we got it as a gift) is that my daughter loved the dishes we prepared for her, without fail, and now, at 3 and a half, we get shocked looks from friends when we bring her to restaurants and others' houses for meals and she is happy to eat what the grown-ups are eating. LOVE IT!

I found the author's suggestions reasonable and her writing pleasant. You won't feel badgered or overwhelmed when you read this. I picked up some good ideas on combos for the 9 month era, which is good, because I think my daughter is tiring of grain + fruit or veggie at every meal! My favorite discovery is tofu blended with banana. YUM! (so that's how they make those yummy and expensive soy shakes!) There are lots of great toddler recipes, and a few others for all ages that I might try. Overall, good information, presented in a simple and useful format.

I followed this book exclusively when introducing my daughter to solids and am doing the same for my son. So far, knock wood, no food allergies for either one. The thing I found the most useful was the table which suggested minimum ages to introduce particular foods. Also, loved this book because it reinforced for me how easy it is to make your own "babyfood" as opposed to buying the jarred stuff. The book I have was handed down through two other moms. Wish it would come back into print.

This is a great book. Very relaxed and simple presentation. Supportive approach and not extremist. Very balanced advice. I tried the Super Baby Food book, but after I read this one in our library. I took the SBF back and ordered this on-line. Good luck!

This book did reinforce my conviction that my baby can grow up perfectly healthy on a whole foods vegeterian/vegan diet (I don't eat any meat and am lactose intolerant and it appears that he is too). However, the book did not provide nearly enough information to guide me in planning a healthy diet for him. It said which foods COULD be introduced when, but not which ones SHOULD be. It did not address complementing as opposed to replacing breastmilk while introducing solids. I am a working mother, but still breastfeeding my 10 mo. old baby 3-4 times a day (including pumping), and am at in dispute with the day-care doctor who says my baby does not get enough protein (At the day care they normally introduce meat at 7-8 months). I expected to find more information on QUANTITIES of solid foods and certain nutrients (protein and others) babies need at what age.

I found this book to be very helpful, finally making baby food sounds easy. The recipes cover ages from 6 months through 3 years. She also includes many recipes for the entire family. I use the book mainly as a cookbook, refering to other books for nutritional guidlines for my son.

This is an overall very helpful book but I have two issues. 1) You need to add considerably more water to the cereal recipes. I wonder if she bothered to test these recipes at all. 2) You need to modify the amount of food she recommends if you plan to breastfeed for at least a year. She has the baby eat three meals of solids per day very quickly including three weeks of nothing but cereal (which could cause constipation in many babies).

I ordered Naturally Healthy First Foods for Baby because I wanted to make my own baby food. I use mainly my steamer, but the book says that you can cook the vegetables on the stove as well. There is a lot of information at the beginning of the book that I skimmed over. I really like that the food recipes are divided by how many months old the baby is. That helps when deciding what foods to give the baby and when. The recipes are easy to follow but I use the Fresh Baby storage containers to freeze the food. I would recommend this book.

I was excited to receive this book but quickly became disappointed. The more I read, the more nervous it made me about all the possibly bad effects of introducing this or that food to my baby. It's very conservative in nature, often suggesting you delay giving foods that most others (my pediatrician, other cookbooks, common wisdom) tell you are fine. I was also disappointed to find very few recipes that I wanted to cook. It's still sitting on my shelf, basically unused.

Great reference for feeding natural, healthy whole foods to your baby. It does not, however, follow others' advice on foods that aren't recommended to be made at home. Baby food manufacturers remove nitrates from root vegetables such as carrots, which you cannot do at home, but this book has receipes for these foods. Need another reference, but overall a good book.

I had decided a long time before having a baby to make my own food. I have been doing internet research and talking to a lot of moms about what they did (including my own!), and finally went to the store and randomly bought this book to get started. What a surprise - this book had literally everything I needed.

I was very impressed with all the information besides recipes. It really gives a lot of information about starting solids, allergies and what foods to wait on. Every stage first has a summary of what you can introduce into your child's diet and then an additional chapter of just recipes. Being new to the whole baby food world, this information was great and also very up to date. I have been comparing this book's recommendations to other book's recipes as a guideline. The recipes provided are simple and easy. The book also has a lot of international ideas and recipes using items I wouldn't think of buying, but am really glad I did after.

Now I do have a few minor complaints. One is that some recipes call for items that are hard to find. For example, when I decided to make rice cereal it called for adding "kombu" which is a type of seaweed. I was able to find some at a local asian grocery store, but I would think in other areas this might be difficult to find. The book does include a list of websites where these unusual items can be bought.
Also some of the directions for the recipes can be a little too general for a noncook like myself. For example when I started cooking my first recipe (rice cereal) it said for it to simmer for 90 minutes. Well I didn't realize that I should be stirring this occasionally and a lot got stuck to the bottom. Afterwards I was like, "duh" but I guess when I follow I recipe I appreciate all the details.

Overall this book was great and I know I am going to totally wear mine out as I try more and more recipes from it. If you are just beginning the solids experience and want a comprehensive book that includes recipes and other important information, look no further!

Children on the autistic spectrum can be fussy as well as sensitive eaters. This book aims to provide parents facing these particular sort of difficulties with support and advice. I identified with a lot of things in this book. If you think that other parents, teachers, and health professionals don't, can't and won't understand what it is to have a child so fussy that they would rather starve than eat something the wrong shape or colour, then if nothing else this book will show you that you are not alone.

the book does offer some great tips. you dont have to follow the book exactly. things could back fire. there are things that work like your persistence mom.

This book was filled mostly with anecdotes of other familes and their struggles with food and autism. I was expecting more suggestions and things I didn't know or hadn't tried.
But it helped to know that we are not alone. And hearing from children and adults with autism was very helpful.
It really put things into perspective and know that my children have less problems than others that physically get sick around "offensive" food.
Basically the biggest idea in this book was not to give up trying. Eventually you should see some improvement in your child's eating habits.

At 10 months, when my friends' kids were eating solids eagerly and enjoying them, I joked that my child's favorite foods were paper and cardboard -- and green olives. But it was no joke; at every opportunity she'd stuff paper or cardboard into her mouth, and she'd eat green olives voraciously, but I could scarcely get her to swallow anything else. At 12 months she started eating a little more, and I fell into the trap so many mothers of non-eating children fall into -- "I'll feed my child ANYTHING just so she'll eat SOMETHING." Green olives? Sure, honey, eat a whole jar. Passion fruit sorbet? Sure, every night for dinner. Potato chips? I'll buy a health food brand. After some months of this approach I came to my senses and restricted her diet to just the 8 or 10 "healthy" foods she'd eat a little of. But all this changed when I had a phone consult with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a British neurologist and nutritionist whose own autistic son is fully recovered. Dr. Campbell-McBride gave me a step by step program for correcting my child's intestinal dysbiosis (imbalance of microorganisms in the gut) and rehabilitating her digestion. It took me several weeks to complete the transition to the first stage diet, but then -- suddenly my child had normal solid stools, every day -- no more constipation alternating with soupy smelly stuff! And when I started introducing new foods two weeks later, the first new things took a little care and "trickery", but soon my daughter was eagerly opening her mouth wide when I told her "I have a new food for you to try!" Within three months after we achieved solid stools, she was happily eating about 50 different foods -- and I mean real, nutritious, home-cooked foods like salmon, trout, butterfish, chicken, turkey, liver, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, spinach, artichokes... Moms, why settle for struggling with feeding year after year? Why settle for feeding your child *anything* just so your child will eat *something*? Fix your kid's digestive system and your kid will eagerly eat healthy foods! I highly recommend Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride's book "Gut and Psychology Syndrome", which gives you her whole treatment program step by step, as well as simple steps for getting your ASD child to eat the new foods the diet requires. An important thing Dr. Campbell-McBride points out is that ASD children, allowed to eat only what they choose, will always eat a diet that keeps their digestive systems sick and their brain function impaired. So if you need to know "you're not alone", ok, read Legge's book. But forget Leggge's diet tips -- get your kid on a real treatment program like Dr. Campbell-McBride's and you'll have a happy, healthy eater and a much better functioning child.

This book is fantastic. As a mother of an 8 year old with Asperger's, it has given me a sense of relief that my son isn't too bad with his limited food choices. The tips on presenting foods will be invaluable. After reading the book, I no longer feel like an inadequate, poor mother who panders to tantrums over food. Thoroughly recommended reading for all parents who have concerns about their childs diet, whether special needs or not. Will also be recommending this book to other family members who criticise when I bring my son's own food to special occasions and outings outside our home environment.