Study finds increase in snacking related to parental oversight

Massmomm
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:12:56 +0000

The article doesn’t ever explain what an “uninvolved feeder” is. A parent who buys the snacks and leaves the children to decide when they’ll eat them? A parent who doesn’t prepare regular meals and thus, doesn’t sit down with the children to eat them? A parent who prepares meals, but leaves it up to the kids to decide what to eat? A parent who always has an alternative snack available if the kid dislikes the meal? I seems that any one of these behaviors could contribute to a child’s poor food choices, but the main one has to be buying unhealthy snacks in the first place. Young children don’t have the means to buy cheese puffs or Oreos, so if they’re in the house, the parent is to blame.