Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters From High Chair to High School

From deciding when to introduce solids to helping vegetarian teens make healthy choices, parents confront many issues when trying to get their children to eat healthy meals. This comprehensive book by Jill Castle and Maryann Jacobsen ― both pediatric and family nutrition experts ― explains how eating relates to a child’s overall development, how to make balanced food choices (and help children make them too), and how to end feeding struggles forever.

Castle and Jacobsen outline an inclusive approach to healthy feeding centered around the three Fearless Feeding Fundamentals: WHAT, HOW, and WHY.

This newly updated and revised edition of Fearless Feeding explores feeding children at every stage of development in order to maximize health and growth and prevent unhealthy attitudes about food later in life.

What People Are Saying about Feerless Feeding ...

"Fear not! This rational, practical, and joyful book gives parents the knowledge and tools to feed their families confidently and fearlessly."
—Michelle May, MD, author, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat

"So many experts, books, magazines, and busybodies seem determined to convince parents that they can't do anything right. Here's a book that silences the din of 'You're doing it wrong!' and makes raising healthy eaters easy."
—Lenore Skenazy, author, Free-Range Kids

"In this book on infant and child nutrition, two well-trained, experienced nutritionists bring an evidence-based approach to the WHAT, HOW, and WHY of feeding to make infant and child nutrition an enjoyable pastime for parents who are concerned about their child's diet and their overall health. Fearless Feeding is an excellent guide for parents concerned about an appropriate approach to feeding their children."
—Allan Walker, MD, director, Division of Nutrition, Harvard Medical School

"At last! A book that offers parents a clear road map to what should be a natural and instinctive endeavor: feeding one's child. It will be a pleasure to recommend this book as a solid resource for helping children build a healthy, long-standing, and perhaps lifesaving relationship with food."
—Nancy Beveridge, MD, pediatrician, Nashville, Tennessee

"You no longer can use the excuse 'My child didn't come with an owner's manual' when it comes to finicky eaters. Castle and Jacobsen have created the quintessential one just for you and your child."
—David Grotto, RD, LDN, author, The Best Things You Can Eat: For Everything from Aches to Zzzz, the Definitive Guide to the Nutrition-Packed Foods that Energize, Heal, and Help You Look Great

"This sanity-saving resource will help parents gain confidence in the kitchen and at the dinner table and even help them face the biggest challenges like coping with picky eaters, weight problems, and food allergies. Every parent should have a copy of this book in their kitchen!"
—Aviva Goldfarb, cookbook author and founder of the family-dinner planning service, The Six O’Clock Scramble

"In today's frenzied food world, families want wise counsel—not just on WHAT to feed their children, but HOW to feed them as well. Fearless Feeding accomplishes both with reassuring, practical, easy-to-digest advice for children of all ages."
—Dayle Hayes, MS, RD, president, Nutrition for the Future

"Fearless Feeding takes a relaxed and reassuring approach to the often difficult task of nourishing children. As the mother of three, I appreciate how the authors blend their professional know-how and parental wisdom to provide parents with a valuable resource for guilt-free feeding."
—Elizabeth M. Ward, MS, RD, author, Expect the Best: Your Guide to Healthy Eating Before, During, and After Pregnancy