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The SENSE-ational Mealtimes book is for those who know a child who struggles to enjoy family mealtimes. You are not alone as nearly half of families with young children experience difficulties around mealtimes that are often accompanied with feelings of frustration, confusion, annoyance, worry, distress and anger. If you are a parent or caregiver of a child who eats few foods, refuses entire food groups, will not eat family meals, becomes anxious, tantrums or gags when presented with new foods or finds security in a particular food being present at every meal, which has been prepared the same way, then SENSE-ational Mealtimes is for you. Together with those we have previously had the privilege of joining with, we trust you will find the key to managing tricky mealtime behaviours, fussy/picky eating and feeding problems is not found in a list of strategies, but in exploring the way our genes and past experiences shape family mealtimes. The SENSE-ational Mealtimes book helps parents understand what they and their child are experiencing at tricky mealtimes. SENSE-ational Mealtimes explains that what sounds, smells, sights, touch, movement, temperatures, tastes and textures we avoid, are bothered by, tolerate, love and seek are based on our genetics, the sensory thresholds in our brain, our feelings and interactions, our surroundings and our previous experiences and memories. SENSE-ational Mealtimes is the much needed book that enables caregivers to discover just right ways to meet their child's unique SENSORY PREFERENCES for mealtimes and stretch toward nutritious food for the whole family. As the expert in relation to your child, SENSE-ational Mealtimes will help you develop just right stretching of the range of nutritious food your child accepts and enjoys as you SENSE-itively tune-in, reflect on, empathise with and label your own and your child's sensory preferences for mealtimes. When caregivers use SENSE-ational Mealitmes to help them continually tune-in to and em