If you spend any amount of time writing and thinking about kids’ relationship with food and their bodies, a tip you’ll run into early and often is to serve meals “family style.” This means you stop pre-plating your kids’ meals …
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If you spend any amount of time writing and thinking about kids’ relationship with food and their bodies, a tip you’ll run into early and often is to serve meals “family style.” This means you stop pre-plating your kids’ meals …
NEW YORK TIMES // MAY 2020
How parents in food-insecure households are stretching meals and struggling to nourish their kids during the pandemic.
For years, whenever anyone asked me for advice on starting a freelance writing career, I said “invest every dime you can in childcare so you can protect your work time.” When I wrote the acknowledgements to The Eating Instinct, …
NEW YORK TIMES // MARCH 2020
Myths about hyperactivity and sugar in children persist, despite evidence that debunks the connection.
A question that I’m asked repeatedly (by readers, podcast listeners, and social media folk) is some version of: “Do you have something my spouse can read to get on board with this?” (Sometimes replace spouse with parent or babysitter. Mostly, …
If you’ve been feeling over-confident about gender roles lately — maybe because so many women are running for president, or because She Said is on the NYT Bestseller list and Harvey Weinstein got indicted again — you can slow that …
I’ve spent a lot of this summer feeling a little bleh. Uninspired. Burnt out. The Eating Instinct has been out for the better part of a year and while I still hear from readers weekly (thank you!) its “moment,” so …
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