Weaning with mindfulness

Tips and strategies for developing a healthy relationship with food for infants up to 3 years old

Antonella Montano, Roberta Rubbino, Anna Claudia Massolo, Carolina Cassar

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Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 14x22cm

Pages: 144

ISBN: 978-88-590-2918-2

Publication date: 01/09/2022

Suitable for: Pre-nursery (ages 0-3)

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The volume introduces the introduction of complementary foods with Mindful Eating in order to help parents with their children to build a healthy relationship with food right from an early age, cultivating physical as well as emotional and social well-being. Brimming with tips, strategies and stories, Weaning using mindfulness narrates the stories of food appearing on our tables daily and encourages every child to discover their tastes. Furthermore, it reminds us that:

Mindful parenthood opens up to versatility and openness of the mind and the heart, which becomes sensitive, kind and capable of benevolence even with the struggles and challenges involved in the new role being played.
A mindful diet supports parenthood and supports upbringing and growth, as well as having a sustainable and responsible impact on our planet.
Being mindful and eating mindfully means knowing that all that we are, all that we do and all that we eat are linked by a fine thread, invisible to the eyes of most.

Introduction
Weaning or complementary food?
Attachment or nutrition
Conscious eating
Let’s get to work
Stories
The pride of the Apple
The branches of the Pear
The song of the Banana
The clock of the Apricot
The scent of the Clementine
A treasure of a Carrot
Grandfather Celery
The Courgette’s wardrobe
The Cheese’s long sleep
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Weaning with mindfulness

Strategies for developing a healthy relationship with food from the first months

Mindful Eating helps parents and children build a healthy relationship with food together from an early age, cultivating physical, emotional, and social well-being, to savor the moment and discover food without performance anxiety or unnecessary worries, which risk turning weaning into a nagging duty or an automatic routine.

Eating mindfully means knowing how to "savour the here and now," "putting the pleasure of sharing on the table," but also paying attention to what, how and where you eat. It means passing on to one's children curiosity and respect for food and its history and, last but not least, supporting the ability to listen to one's body and self-regulate.

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THE VOLUME

Packed with tips, strategies and stories, Weaning with mindfulness introduces complementary foods with Mindful Eating. At the end of the book, 9 stories tell the journey of the foods that arrive on our tables every day and invite us to discover the tastes of boys and girls, reminding us that:

Mindful parenting opens up to versatility, to the spaciousness of the mind and heart, which becomes sensitive, kind and capable of benevolence even amidst the fatigue and challenges implicit in the new role you now hold.
A mindful diet supports parenting and supports education and growth, as well as having a sustainable and supportive impact on the planet.
Being mindful and eating mindfully means knowing that everything we are, what we do and everything we eat is linked by a thin thread, invisible to the eyes of most.

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THE AUTHORS

Antonella Montano Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, founder and director of the A.T. Beck of Rome and Caserta, and Member of the Beck Institute International Advisory Committee of Philadelphia, has been teaching Mindfulness-Based protocols throughout the country for years.

Roberta Rubbino Psychologist, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist. Manager and teacher in the Development Age Area “Beck Kids” of the A.T. Beck, she mainly deals with clinical training in the field of childhood and adolescent psychopathology. Member of the International Society of Schema Therapy (SIST).

Anna Claudia Massolo Psychotherapist, pediatrician, neonatologist and teacher at the A.T. Beck. Winner of international awards and author of numerous publications in national and international journals in the pediatric field.

Carolina Cassar Psychologist, cognitive-interpersonal psychotherapist, specialized in attachment theory. EMDR therapist, PhD in Dynamic and Clinical Psychology.

Thematic Areas

Parents and children