What do I do if I think my child is overeating for emotional reasons?

What do I do if I think my child is overeating for emotional reasons?

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If you feel your child is overeating for emotional reasons you need to talk to them: “Hey little Johnny or Susie, how did your day go?” and find out what they're linking up to the behavior of eating too much or inappropriate foods. So what is fuelling their behavior? Is it that they're happy? Are they sad? Or whatever. People can associate food with pleasure and pain and happiness and joy and excitation and reward and everything. We should associate food with enjoying time with your family and doing something social but it doesn't mean that it means social over indulgence either. And so the most important thing is to find out why they're doing this. And are they linking up their food behavior inappropriately to balance out some emotional flux that they had in their life that day or in the days and weeks preceding as well.