growing up left me with permanent scars. My adulthood was polka-dotted with periods of curvy slimness but my relationship to food has always been on the thorny. Do you think being a healthy weight is part of being a good parent? Even though I've not been able to achieve a healthy weight for myself (yet!), the fact that my 3 kids (ages 23, 16 and 13) are all perfectly slender and healthy (and always have been) proves to me how that having a healthy relationship with food is essential to good parenting. Those parents who struggle with their weight, what do you do to try to make sure your children have a more healthy relationship with food? I make healthy meals and we eat them together at the table every day. We eat to fullness and then stop. I have taught my children to eat small portions first and get more only if they're still hungry, which they never do. I must be doing something right! ? For the cooks out there, when did you first learn to appreciate preparing nutrition meals for yourself or your family? My mom never like to cook and often fell back on tv dinners and hamburger helper. When my Dad remarried his inner chef came out and he became quite a foodie. He introduced me to foods I'd never tasted before, like mushrooms, avacados, grilled onions, zucchinni, eggplant parmesan, seaside fish 'n' chips, broiled salmon, tri-tip steaks. I loved tasting his masterpieces. Once married