Responsive feeding and the division of responsibility.

摘要

We read with interest the Symposium articles on Responsive Feeding (1-5) and applaud Theournal of Nutrition for this Symposium as it rightly places focus on the importance of the feeding relationship to early childhood physical and mental well being.We wish to comment on two of the articles: the article by Engle and Pelto, "Responsive Feeding: Implications for Policy and Program Implementation" (5) and the article by Hurley, Cross, and Hughes, "A Systematic Review of Responsive Feeding and Child Obesity in High-Income Countries" (3).Engle and Pelto (5) describe the division of responsibility as operationalizing responsive feeding in the United States. As it was first described by Satter in 1986 (6), the division of responsibility outlines in detail the responsive feeding relationship in which parents are responsible for the developmentally appropriate structure and routine of feeding (the what, when, and where of eating) and the child is responsible for how much and whether or not to eat what the parent provides.