Family in Focus®
Family in Focus®
Are you feeling stuck around your child’s eating, weight, or health? Are food struggles or mixed messages about “doing it right” creating stress in your home? Family in Focus is a podcast for parents navigating family health, especially when concerns about food, body, and emotional well-being start to strain relationships at home. Hosted by Dr. Wendy Schofer, the pediatrician who helps parents lead meaningful change without harm, this podcast approaches family health in a very different way, by prioritizing connection, trust, and emotional health over control or pressure. Family in Focus centers parent-led shifts that actually last. Conversations explore how change can happen without shame, how emotions shape health behaviors, and why protecting the parent-child relationship is essential to supporting children’s well-being. This is a space for parents who want to support their child’s health without sacrificing connection along the way.
Dec. 16, 2021

Episode 28: 4 Reasons Kids (and Adults!) Seek and Eat Food Without Being Hungry

Episode 28: 4 Reasons Kids (and Adults!) Seek and Eat Food Without Being Hungry
Family in Focus®
Episode 28: 4 Reasons Kids (and Adults!) Seek and Eat Food Without Being Hungry

Episode 28!

Last time we talked about Hunger & Kids... but you may have noticed, there's a lot of food-searching going on. Is it possible the kids aren't actually hungry all the time? Why else could they be asking for food, again?!

Today we dive into 4 additional reasons that we all search for food. How are we looking to food to solve problems other than hunger?

I stressed it in the recording and I'll stress it again here: this is not a time to argue someone else's hunger. It's a time to observe the patterns of eating for yourself, and then observe in the family.

In fact, it's never our role to tell someone else, "You're not hungry." More on that next time!

Check out my resources at www.wendyschofermd.com, free handouts and information on my coaching programs for parents who are looking to create healthy habits that the whole family can share.

If you haven't joined, I also host a free Facebook group for parents at www.facebook.com/groups/familyinfocus