How to raise kids with a healthy approach to eating and their bodies

Nutritionist Claire Turnbull offers advice on fostering healthy eating habits in children by focusing on a 'division of responsibility' model. The approach emphasizes parental control over food availability while granting children autonomy over their intake.
Why it matters
Promoting healthy relationships with food in childhood is essential for preventing long-term eating disorders and obesity.
<p>Parents, relax: sugar-free perfection is not the goal. <i>Claire Turnbull</i> shares seven top tips for raising kids who have healthy relationships with both food and their bodies. </p> <p>When I had my first child, it was homemade baby food, healthy birthday cake recipes, and water only. Then, a few years later, I had a second child. Time got tighter, the juggle of work and two kids became very real, and my vision of perfection started to shift. </p> <p>After more than two decades of working in nutrition, and raising two very different eaters of my own, this is what I now know. The goal is not to raise children who avoid every gram of added sugar or never enjoy a bowl of chips and dip with their friends.
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