Our free webinar series explores the questions that don't get asked often enough, and what becomes possible when we finally start asking them.
Each webinar includes a 30-minute Q&A, providing a unique opportunity to hear perspectives from families in similar situations, and to have your own questions heard.
For parents of children. With a diagnosis or without.
You know it well. Falling asleep is a battle, getting up in the morning is a battle. Your child is tired, unfocused, unable to sit still even at the table. They're irritable and easily upset. The same arguments on repeat. The whole family feels it.
With the return to school, many parents start noticing it again. The routine is back — the morning rush, snacks, school lunches, and afternoon fatigue. And with it, the problems that weren't as visible over the summer.
And somewhere in the middle of it all is food.
You may have known for a long time that your child's diet isn't ideal. They eat the same few foods over and over. They refuse new foods. They eat almost no vegetables. They mainly want bread, pasta, sweets, or a handful of their favourite meals. And every time you try to change something, it ends in refusal, negotiation, or a fight.
That's exactly what this webinar is about: why it's so hard to change a child's diet, and where to even begin.
Selective eating can have many causes. Sensory sensitivity, learned behaviour, rigidity, anxiety, and previous experiences with food can all play a role — but so can digestion or physical discomfort.
That's why it usually isn't enough to tell a child, "Just have a taste." And there's no single diet that will work for every child.
First we need to understand what the child actually eats: why they seek out some foods, why they refuse others, and what keeps their selectivity going.
In the webinar we'll look at the behavioural side of selective eating, but also at the biological factors that can play a role. We'll talk about digestion, the gut, and the nervous system.
And above all, about what you can start doing about it at home.
Why some children eat the same foods over and over, and why it's so hard to change their diet.
What can lie behind food refusal. We'll look at sensory sensitivity, learned behaviour, digestion, and physical discomfort.
How to look at your child's current diet and find its weakest points.
How food, energy, focus, and a child's everyday functioning can be connected.
Where to start if your child eats only a very limited number of foods.
How to introduce changes gradually, without chaos and a daily fight at the table.
How to know you're heading in the right direction, even when results aren't visible right away.
The webinar will include a conversation with the mother of a child with ASD who significantly changed his diet. She'll share openly what was hardest, what helped them, and the changes she gradually observed in her child.
Dita Chapman
Functional Medicine Practitioner specializing in pediatrics, Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), and founder of Pediatric Interventions.
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