Parents need to agree on food practices 3. Parenting The best parenting provides both love and limits. Healthy feeding relationships are part and parcel of healthy parenting. Parents who get along well with each other and support each other, do the best job with parenting and feeding. Normal Eating Normal eating is being able to eat when you are hungry and continue eating until you are satisfied.
Normal eating is flexible.
It is three meals a day, most of the time. It is sometimes overeating, sometimes undereating and trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating. Normal eating takes up some of your time and attention but keeps its place as only one important area of your life. A parent needs to be eating normally for a child to eat normally. They are capable of regulating their food intake.