“To the worried mama whose child won’t eat enough” published in Motherly

When my firstborn, Max, was young, there was one parenting mantra that always sent my blood pressure soaring. That mantra was: “When a child gets hungry enough, they’ll eat.”

This phrase always struck me as the sort of common sense wisdom that should hold true. But it certainly wasn’t working for us, because Max rarely seemed to feel hungry no matter how long we went without trying to coax or compel him to eat. I had never seen a toddler so unmotivated by food. 

Read the rest of this piece in Motherly.