Leadership Matters

Dotty’s Kitchin

Catherine Turner-Perrott

From the day my daughter was born, she had no interest in food. I remember having to feed her milk in her sleep or with a blanket over her eyes when she was a baby. As she grew up my husband and I, who both love food, began to dread mealtime, as they’d consist of hours of coaxing, bribing and nagging. I was terrified that she’d have such negative memories of food that she’d develop an eating disorder when she was older.

I remember clearly, after one particularly stressful mealtime I sat down beside her on the naughty step and held her defiant little body close to mine. I had already started to research child psychologists but I was still wondering what I could do better? As most mothers would, I very ...