What childhood food aversion have you overturned through curiosity and openness? 🙋🏽♀️
For more on raising intuitive eaters, check out “Fearless Feeding” by Jill Castle (@pediRD) and Maryann Jacobsen (@mtjacobsen).
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Instead of working so hard to engineer our children's development, we can begin a more rewarding parenting journey by realizing that we do not make our children what they will become — we only facilitate the development of what’s inevitable. https://t.co/37od3ADqFE
Children. Nothing could be more simple—or more difficult. Difficult, because to trust children we must trust ourselves—and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. -John Holt #parenting#kids
Maria Montessori taught that children go through a “sensitive period for order” that peaks at about age two. Fascinated by how the world works, toddlers have a strong desire for consistency and repetition, craving routine and structure.
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As @janetlansbury explains, when we set boundaries for children, we need to be prepared to calmly and clearly reinforce those boundaries again and again.
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