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When your kid won't 'go': Managing Childhood Constipation

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When your kid won't 'go': Managing Childhood Constipation

Constipation is a common childhood problem. It happens often at two points early in a child's life. The first time is generally around the time when baby starts eating solid foods and starts to shift from a full fluid diet to having milk/formula and solids. The second time it commonly occurs is around toilet training. Sometimes children don't like the experience of toilet training, start to hold their bowel movements, thereby causing constipation. Beyond these two more common times, constipation unfortunately, can strike at any point.

Green Giant

Green Giant

Author: Andrea Carpenter, RD

Recipe Type: Smoothies

Serving: 2

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1/2 cup water

  • 1/2 cup unsweetened milk alternative (pea, hemp, almond, coconut)

  • 1/2 cup pineapple

  • 1 banana

  • 2 TBSP hemp hearts

  • 1/2 TBSP matcha

  • 1/2 tsp spirulina

  • 2 cups leafy, baby greens (kale, spinach, arugula)

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Add all ingredients to the blender, in the order listed above.

  2. Start blender at low and gradually increase to maximum (or use a smoothie setting if you have it). Add additional water if too thick.

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Overcoming Picky Eating

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Overcoming Picky Eating

Do you have a child who is a picky eater? Learn how to stop the battle at mealtimes.

If you are a parent of a finicky eater, you may dread coming to the dinner table. For many, a child's eating habits can cause a huge amount of stress at meal times; so much that it can get to the point where no one wants to eat together. If this sounds familiar, this post is for you. I'm talking about 'The Picky Eater'.