October Watch Party – Feeding Kids: Shouldn’t We Talk About the Caregivers?
Watch Parties are a dedicated time where we can gather and watch one of the recordings from a past webinar together. WIDIC members will have the opportunity to vote on what to watch every month! There will be additional time at the end blocked off for discussion and peer support.
Access to Watch Parties is available to all WIDIC members and anyone who has previously registered for the webinar, or purchased the recording. Watch Parties are not recorded.
For our October Watch Party, we are watching Eating Disorders in Fat, Trans & Gender-Expansive People, originally presented by Maude Perreault, PhD, RD and Sarthak Matravadia, PhD, RD in May 2022.
When kids learn how to eat, caregivers learn how to feed. Yet, this last part is often overlooked, or worse, assumed to be easy (thank you Instagram!). Between unrealistic caregivers’ expectations of what learning-to-eat encompasses, and the mom-centric dominant narrative that minimizes fathers, caregivers may find feeding kids very challenging.
When feeding issues arise, it is common to see advice targeting novel food exposures, cute shapes, and fun ways to increase food acceptance. What else are we missing in conventional family nutrition practice? In this webinar we will focus on the lesser-discussed, but equally important issues around feeding kids. Informed by our research and clinical experience, we will shift away from a kid-centric approach, turning our attention toward the role of caregivers.
We will discuss:
- When feeding brings up the caregiver’s trauma: breaking the intergenerational cycle.
- Caregivers’ unrealistic expectations: what Instagram tells you “normal eating” should be.
- The role of fathers: an uncaptured and underserved population.
- Mixed-race families: meshing two sets of cultural norms and values.
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