How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence

Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson provide a blueprint for protecting children from chronic dieting and body dissatisfaction by applying the ten principles of Intuitive Eating to pediatric development. The authors outline how parents can maintain a child’s innate ability to self-regulate hunger and fullness while navigating the pressure of weight-centric medical advice. The book details the Division of Responsibility framework, where caregivers manage the timing and selection of meals while children decide how much to eat. By dismantling the "good food versus bad food" hierarchy, the text offers strategies to handle sweets and picky eating without using shame or restriction.

This guide serves parents, educators, and healthcare providers who want to raise children with a neutral relationship toward their physicality and nutrition. Readers learn to identify their own internalized weight biases to prevent passing them down to the next generation. The audience walks away with scripts for responding to diet talk in social settings and practical methods for building a home environment where food is a source of nourishment rather than anxiety.