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Just Two More Bites!: Helping Picky Eaters Say Yes to Food

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The title isn't totally what the book is about. This book has so many great points on development and food and the relation between the two and speech development. Not only that but it goes into autism and other special need children and coping with food and development related to food. I love her no nonsense...no emotion approach to food. Its filled with recommendations on other books and readings, recipes, as well as actualy clients storys she has worked with to help the reader relate.

Like many mothers of preschoolers, I have a picky kid. My three-year-old daughter will devour asparagus, broccoli and artichoke hearts with vigor. My five-year-old son, on the other hand, won't eat condensed Campbell's chicken noodle soup -- even with the fun shapes! -- because it has miniscule chunks of carrot in it. It can make dinnertime a bit challenging.

I've been trying to find ways to work around his picky palate and get him to try new foods, and thought Just Two More Bites might be the solution. While the book had some good ideas, most of it was really common-sense advice ("Let him choose his own foods!") and repetition of ideas we've already exhausted at this point. There were a few recipes to help sneak vitamin-rich veggies in on kids, but not as many as I'd hoped. And I have to note -- there is no way in hell I'd get my son to eat "green balls" of baked spinach, cheese and bread crumbs. Seriously? My kid with the adventurous palate might even turn up her nose at those.

Overall, I think most of the advice is geared toward parents of young picky eaters -- the recommendations and hints seemed most appropriate for older babies just experimenting with textures and new foods, up to two-year-olds in their defiant stage. I don't think other parents with older kids would find much new information or helpful advice here.

This book helps parent and child alike. It gives ideas to entice the child to eat through behavior modification methods staying calm in this stressful time of your child's life. Offers medical routes, possible physical reasons and so much more that the parent has many avenues to try to help themselves help their child eat well ballanced diets. Example: A child with an open bite may not be able to successfully even tear out a bite of apple or shear of a piece of meat. This book, it explores all facets of digestion and succesful eating and development. Thru this book we are achieving more success ( our 4yr old has open bite, diagnosed by dentist, not gastroenterologist)

I bought this book because I have 15 month old son, who still likes to eat soft and pureed food, this book helped me to understand how to get him used to lumpy and textured food, and I see some improvement in less than a month , and I also see nice topics about older toddlers , I think it will be a great reference to me in the future as well till preschool stage :)
I really recommend this book :)

I also agree with the previous reviewers. I was looking for nutritional guidelines for my toddler (i.e. how much iron, how much calcium, etc per day, etc.) and this book had good info on the subject. It also had a great section on food allergies. Overall, a great book that discusses the link between eating and overall speech/mouth muscle development and provides strategies / examples of how to help our children become better eaters. I had borrowed the book from the library and like the previous reviewer, decided I wanted a copy for myself.

I completely agree with the review by Fris. I got it from the library first, liked it and had to have my own copy.

This book was recommended by a pediatric dietician. However, I did not find it very helpful, at all.