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• 9 Tips to Help Your Child and Teen Achieve a Healthy Weight    Handout developed by the ECU Pediatric Healthy Weight Research & Treatment Center
  
  
• Child of Mine: Feeding with love and good sense by Ellyn Satter. 2000. This book is primarily for new parents.
  
  
• How to Get Your Kid to Eat-But Not Too Much by Ellyn Satter. 1987. This book is for parents with picky eaters as well as children who are at risk for overweight.
  
  
• Helping Your Overweight Child. National Institutes of Health brochure. Available at no charge. (http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/over_child.htm)
  
  
• ADA Guide to Healthy Eating For Kids: How your children can eat smart from 5 to 12 by Jodie Shield, MEd, RD and Mary Catherine Mullen, MS, RD.  This book addresses parental concerns about whether their children are eating healthy when not under parental supervision. 2002.
  
  
• Helping Your Child Lose Weight the Healthy Way: A family approach to weight control by Judith Levine, RD, MS, and Linda Bine. New York: Citadel Press; 2001. 302 pages
  
  
• Adventures in Parenting. 2002.  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. A booklet that explains how responding, preventing, monitoring, mentoring and modeling can help you be a successful parent for children from birth to age 14.  Available by calling 1-800-370-2943 or by downloading (no charge) at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubslist.cfm.