It’s known that rapid weight gain is a risk for obesity and it’s also thought that the first few months of life help develop our satiety responsiveness – how our cravings and sense of fullness while eating feel – and therefore if fed excess amounts during that time we may set children up for a bigger challenge with overweight later in life.

Wendy Sue Swanson

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It's not just early introduction. It's routine feeding. It's habituating. We need to make a habit of eating very diverse foods, it's a great habit to have your whole life, because 50 % of people who develop a food allergy develop it in adulthood.

Wendy Sue Swanson

We come from a place of restriction and medicalization. by Wendy Sue Swanson

We come from a place of restriction and medicalization.

Wendy Sue Swanson

No, I don't want you to be cautious. In fact, waiting might cause... by Wendy Sue Swanson

No, I don't want you to be cautious. In fact, waiting might cause harm.

Wendy Sue Swanson

Programming has gotten better and better at capturing our kids' attention, and while this is provocative and compelling for children's minds, it also sets them up for this expectation that the world moves at a certain pace, and we know that it doesn't.

Wendy Sue Swanson

Let's with understanding and empathy say that it makes sense that people do this, they're not doing it out of any bad or malicious thought or neglect. They're doing it because it's an easy fix for a complex situation -- which is a frustrated, hungry, tired child, and a frustrated, hungry, tired parent.

Wendy Sue Swanson

I understand why you do it. I do it, too, but all of us have to work really hard to realize that it is a super easy solution and the harder way might be better and, in the end, might be more beneficial.

Wendy Sue Swanson

When we're busy and we're working a couple of jobs or are overwhelmed or are a single parent, the television is so effective at holding our child's attention and making it easier on our household.

Wendy Sue Swanson

As a child's brain is developing, particularly in the first 2 to 3 years of life, the brain is making wild, new novel connections. It is wiring and re-wiring.

Wendy Sue Swanson

Kids have a lot of snot, they have a lot of drool and they go to school, we love them, but they are a lot of the reason flu moves around the community.

Wendy Sue Swanson