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Hey everybody. Just wanted to pop in a quick feeding tip - something that somehow practical advice that did not make it into my book but that is coming up in calls with clients as well as at workshops. So when I talk about serving family-style, I often hear parents say, "Well, what about my 2-year-old? She really is having trouble." Or: "My child has developmental delays," or, "It's chilli, and I need to help her"... and how do you do that while maintaining division of responsibility? Um, and a super-easy way to do this - and I've done this in my own home - is to - to continue to let your child feel in control. So you take your bowl, and you take your serving spoon [gesture as of holding serving spoon, with right hand close to camera], and you might start with a small amount and say, "Is, is this okay?" Or: "Is this much alright?" And they might say, "Oh, I want more," or, "Not so much" - so then you adjust [mimes shaking some excess off the spoon]. And then I say, "Please point on your plate [points with left hand], where you'd like me to put this. Point to where you want it." Let's say it's peas, so: "Point to where you want the peas." So then the child points, you hold the spoon over [mimes moving right hand holding spoon over a plate], and I might again say: "Right here?" Yes [nods], okay, and then you put it on [mimes turning spoon to deposit invisible peas onto plate]. Because you know that if we don't ask, let's say we just say "would you like some peas?" and they say yes, and you grab a scoop, and you plop it on their plate: nine times out of ten that's going s- [nervous voice, backing away from camera, holding up hands to show "stop"] "whoa, wait, that's too much! I didn't want it there, it's touching that, oh the sauce is getting on it," and they're kind of scraping it away - they're upset - and so, um, you can avoid some of those battles, right away, by getting the child's agreement with each step of the serving process. So I hope that was a helpful tip, and um - let me know! And if it is helpful, I'll try to get more of these quick - er, quick little bites on Facebook. Happy feeding! [waves, reaches over to turn off camera]