Context matters! The relationship between mother-reported family nutrition climate, general parenting, food parenting practices and children’s BMI

Children are more likely to eat more due to emotional stress, irrespective of how sated they feel, which is known as emotional eating (EE). Studies have demonstrated how EE development is linked to early childhood, maternal modeling, and parenting practices related to food. Furthermore, individual appetitive traits (how a child approaches food) are linked to […]

Many studies have explored the links between child eating, parenting food behaviors, child weight, and self-regulation, however, the evidence on how these elements relate to each other in terms of weight gain risk during early childhood is insufficient. Family feeding behaviors and individual differences in self-regulation within and outside of eating are linked to excessive […]