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Raise body-confident, food-positive kids—without guilt, shame, or pressure
If you’ve ever worried about “messing up” how your child feels about food or feared passing down the same struggles you grew up with, you’re not alone.
Food Positivity: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Talk to Kids About Food gives you the words, tools, and confidence to raise kids who feel good in their bodies and trust themselves around food.
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Let’s give our kids a better food story than the one we were raised with
Many of us grew up in a world where food was labeled good or bad, and bodies were something to fix. Now, as parents, we’re trying to do things differently, but it’s hard to know how.
Co-authored by Dani Lebovitz, MS, RDN and Diana Rice, RDN, Food Positivity helps you break that cycle. It’s a compassionate, science-backed guide to raising kids who feel safe, curious, and confident around food—without pressure or perfection.
Because the way we talk about food becomes the way our kids talk to their bodies.
Inside Food Positivity, you’ll discover how to…
💖 Talk about food and bodies without guilt, shame, or fear.
🍉 Understand how children actually learn about food.
✨ Build trust in your child’s hunger and fullness cues.
🥐 Navigate picky eating and food obsessions without resorting to battles or bribes.
🍽️ Create joyful, pressure-free mealtimes that strengthen connection.
🦄 Model body respect so your kids grow up confident and curious.
Why This Book Is Different
Most nutrition advice focuses on what kids should eat. This work focuses on how kids learn about food. Because long before kids understand nutrients, they’re learning through everyday experiences—how food is talked about, offered, and felt.
Real Words for Real Parents
Actual scripts and examples for tricky moments—like when your child says, “I’m fat,” or refuses dinner again.
Dual Focus: Parent + Child
You’ll heal your own food story and learn how to raise the first generation free from shame.
Whole-Child Well-Being
Health goes beyond nutrition. It’s emotional safety, confidence, and belonging
Compassion Over Guilt
No judgment, no perfection. Just doable, permission-giving shifts for real families.
Science Made Simple
Grounded in child development, psychology, and nutrition—translated into language any parent can use.
Meet the developmental expert and creator behind the Food Positivity movement
Dani Lebovitz, MS, RDN
Dani Lebovitz, MS, RDN, is a pediatric dietitian and founder of Kid Food Explorers, where she helps families turn mealtime struggles into moments of curiosity, connection, and joy.
A mom of three and author of the Growing Adventurous Eaters™ series, Dani blends science and play to raise confident, body-trusting kids who thrive, at the table and beyond.
You can find her books and resources at kidfoodexplorers.com and on Instagram @kid.food.explorers.
Dani’s work extends beyond her frameworks in the book into her broader body of work with Kid Food Explorers and how children learn about food in everyday life.
Bring Dani to your community!
Dani offers speaking engagements, workshops, and professional trainings that help parents, educators, and professionals understand how children learn about food—and how to create environments that support confidence, curiosity, and trust.
Blending research-backed insight with real-life examples, she arms her audiences with practical tools they can use immediately to start transforming mealtimes.
Popular speaking topics include:
The Invisible Curriculum™
How the Invisible Curriculum™ (3 Ms: Modeling, Messaging, and Moments™) shape a child’s relationship with food and their body and how to use them with intention.
Food Positivity in Practice
Simple, practical shifts in everyday language and feeding interactions that build trust, confidence, and curiosity.
Growing Adventurous Eaters®
Reframing “picky eating” as learning and supporting kids, using the Explore-to-Grow Compass™ to bring meaningful food learning into everyday life.
What people are saying about Food Positivity
“This book reframes health as more than what’s on a plate: nourishment, yes, but also safety, connection, and joy.”
With practical scripts, compassionate strategies, and evidence-based tools, it makes parenting around food and bodies less stressful while raising kids who trust themselves and grow up free from shame.
— Dr. Mona Amin, Board-Certified Pediatrician, IBCLC, and MomCreator of the Peds Doc Talk Community
“Food Positivity is a thoughtful, empowering guide for parents.”
It centers the child’s feelings, learning, and relationship with food while giving parents a clear, compassionate framework to nurture confidence and curiosity at the table. As a pediatric dietitian and author, I deeply appreciate how it centers the child’s experience and teaches food skills that build lifelong well-being.
— Jill Castle, pediatric dietitian and author, Kids Thrive at Every Size: How to Nourish Your Big, Small, or In-Between Child for a Lifetime of Health and Happiness (Workman, 2024)
“Finally — the feeding manual we’ve been waiting for.”
Food Positivity is compassionate, practical, and deeply attuned to the real families we’re raising today, including those with neurodivergent kids who will feel so seen in these pages. As a body image and eating disorders therapist, this is THE kid nutrition book I’ll be recommending to every family striving to nurture kids without food or body shame.
— Zoë Bisbing, LCSW, Director of Body-Positive Therapy NYC and Creator of Body-Positive Home
“I love how Food Positivity transforms feeding from a battleground into an adventure.”
Food Positivity reminds us that curiosity is the best seasoning of all. Blending science, creativity, and compassion, these authors deliver a joyful, neurodiversity-affirming approach that helps families grow trust and confidence around food.
— Yaffi Lvova, RDN, LDN, owner of Baby Bloom Nutrition and EatHappyLife.com, creator of Toddler Test Kitchen™
“Food Positivity cuts through all the noise about feeding kids with clarity and compassion.”
With warmth and evidence-based insight, this book gives parents the practical tools and confidence to make mealtimes calmer, more joyful, and free from guilt, while helping kids grow up trusting their bodies and enjoying food.
― Anna M. Lutz, MPH, RD/LDN, CEDS-S, Sunny Side Up Nutrition
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