Child Feeding Guide

The Child Feeding Guide has been designed by expert feeding researchers at Loughborough University to help parents and caregivers who want to understand why their child is 'fussy' and what they can do to improve mealtimes. It offers education on the science behind the behaviour, and provides effective strategies and tools that can be used to help tackle fussiness in a positive way.

Using the Child Feeding Guide you will be able to:

- Learn about the five most common feeding pitfalls that parents/caregivers encounter: what they are, why they happen, and what you can do.
- Use the Exposure Monitor tool to help remember to keep offering less-liked foods – a strategy proven to increase liking and acceptance.
- Discover other effective ways to increase fruit and vegetable intake.
- Use our awareness exercise to gain insight into how you might be using food in unhealthy ways.
- Identify alternative ways to reward children without using food.
- Create a profile for you and as many children as required.
- Complete a clinically-validated feeding assessment questionnaire for each child that indicates severity of the feeding problem.
- Complete ratings of wellbeing for you and your child at mealtimes.
- Track all responses over time, graphically.