Playmobil Family meal #2, and "Don't force-feed your child."

What does this scene make you think of? Your own childhood? Your family table right now? Are you putting or forcing food into your child's mouth?I just wrote a sidebar for my book where I describe a video I saw during a feeding therapy workshop. The mother lamented, "No one told me not to force-feed my child!"Here it is. Don't force feed your child.And yet, the parents I work with who are force-feeding, are loving, desperate, nurturing parents who are not given any alternative. They truly feel the choice is between force-feeding and a feeding tube, or death...

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