Author Event with the Solid Starts Team/Solid Starts for Babies

Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an author event with Jenny Best, Kimberly Grenawitzke, and Dr. Sakina Bajowala, to celebrate the release of their newest book, Solid Starts for Babies: How to Introduce Solid Food and Raise a Happy Eater, on Saturday, April 12th at 2:00 pm in our Naperville store. Best, Grenawitzke, and Bajowala will be in conversation with the host of the Whole Parent Podcast, Jon Fogel.

Event Format

We will begin checking you in approximately 30 minutes before the start time. After a presentation and Q&A with the author, the line will form in numbered order with the following guidelines:

• Posed photo with your camera taken by our staff

• There is a limit of 2 books from home to be signed (unless otherwise stated)
  

• There is a limit of 1 personalization of the new book only (unless otherwise stated)

Pre-registration is required for this event because space is limited.

More about Solid Starts for Babies:  

All the evidence and research you need to feel confident feeding your baby from the first highchair moment through toddlerhood.

Join Solid Starts’ multidisciplinary team of licensed pediatric feeding professionals for an engaging conversation about how to introduce solid foods to babies and raise a happy eater. Solid Starts has emerged as the go-to resource for modern families searching for a research-based approach to solid food introduction to babies. 

In their debut book, Solid Starts for Babies, they debunk the myth that “baby food” is necessary and show how, from the moment that baby is ready to begin the transition from breast or bottle to solid food, baby can enjoy almost any food—the same food that you want to eat—with some basic safety modifications.

Parents and caregivers will learn:

· How to cultivate curiosity, build trust at the table, and get out of the way at mealtime so babies can do what they were born to do: eat.

· How the early introduction to many flavors and textures before age one builds baby's palate and familiarity with food before the opinionated toddler years.

· Why food need not be pureed and why six-month-old babies are developmentally capable of eating real food.

· Why allowing baby to grab, hold, and eat food on their own maximizes sensory motor learning, fosters problem-solving skills, and can actually decrease the risk of choking.

· The nutritional, developmental, and psychological benefits to sharing the same food that you like to eat with baby.

· Techniques and guidance for sharing family meals with baby during each development window, from four months of age through early toddlerhood.

· The latest evidence on choking, safety, food allergens, nutrition, food shapes and sizes, and how recommendations are rapidly changing.

With practical, research-backed strategies, Solid Starts for Babies helps parents nurture confidence and sets up families for mealtime joy.

About the Authors: 

About the Conversation Partners:

Jon Fogel is a parenting researcher, husband, and dad of four who knows that parenting isn’t about perfection. Jon has built a following of over 1.5 million by making neuroscience and psychological research practical and applicable. Jon is the author of Punishment-Free Parenting; The Brain-Based Way to Raise Kids Without Raising Your Voice, host of the Whole Parent Podcast, and founder of Whole Parent Academy, where he helps thousands of normal parents from all over the world ditch the power struggles and build relationships that actually work. Jon also speaks at events and on podcasts, breaking down complex ideas with humor, heart, and a healthy dose of real-life parenting chaos.

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