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Title: Coping with a Picky Eater : A Guide for the Perplexed Parent by William G. Wilkoff ISBN: 0-684-83772-2 Publisher: Fireside Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a book for those with the AP philosophy...
Comment: I found a couple of good ideas (i.e. not discussing eating during the meal and placing food on the plate and giving your child the option of eating it or not), but for the most part I found the suggestions by the author to be a bit extreme. I should have known it wasn't the book for me when he suggested using the Ferber method to get your child to sleep and not nursing on demand past the first few months.
I don't think locking your 2 year old in his/her room will make for a better eating style. In fact, I think down the road it will cause problems when your child is a teen and decides to lock YOU out of their room.
If you are someone who thinks using the Ferber method on your child is a good idea, you will probably find this book helpful, but for the parents with a more AP approach will find this book extremely distasteful.
Rating: 5
Summary: An end to wasted food, and cooking two meals
Comment: We found this book to be tremendously helpful. I was at the point of cooking completely separate meals for my partner and me, and for our boys. Using Dr. Wilcoff's ideas of serving at least one food the kids like, insisting on tiny tastes of new food before they get seconds of the other foods, has made mealtimes far calmer. Our older boy has discovered a taste for salad and for brocolli! Our younger son actually tried his grandfather's salmon pie and liked it! But even when they don't like the new food, life is easier because they can ignore the teaspoonful I put on their plates without my fretting that we are wasting a whole serving of food. Our boys are challenging, with a variety of special needs, and this has worked well for them.
Rating: 1
Summary: Refused to finish the book
Comment: I found one chapter "Not to Worry" to be of help to me. There I found a reassuring word about all of the typical reasons why parents worry about their children not eating. That said, I found the first three chapters to run on about nothing relating to the title of the book. Perhaps parents of older toddlers and preschoolers would find this book helpful. But as the mother of a "typical" 18-month old, I was completely appalled by the instruction to use a "restraint such as a harness tethered to the back of the high chair" and "a firm mechanical restraint will give the child few choices to do the wrong thing" terrible advice and, frankly, I was a little concerned that the author had been advising patients for many years as a pediatrician. It was then that I decided the best place for this book was in the trash!
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