How to Talk About Food Without Messing Up Your Kid (w/ Farrell Frankel, Licensed Sports Dietitian)
Healthy Sports ParentsShow Notes
Food is one of the most personal - and complicated - parts of parenting.
In this episode, Jonathan sits down with Farrell Frankel, a Licensed Sports Dietitian who works with youth and college athletes, to talk about how we approach food, body image, and nutrition as sports parents. The conversation covers everything from fueling young athletes to unlearning harmful food messages we grew up with.
Farrell shares practical, compassionate advice for how to talk to kids about food without triggering shame, how to handle dinner during packed practice nights, and how sports can set the stage for lifelong well-being, even if dinner sometimes comes from the drive-thru.
You’ll hear:
Why some well-meaning food talk can backfire
How to make food a positive part of your child’s life
Why your kid’s body is going through normal (and necessary) changes
What Farrell wishes every parent knew about fast food and busy nights
How sports shape kids beyond the field—and why that matters more than macros
If you’ve ever wrestled with how to feed your kid, what to say about their body, or how to keep things healthy without getting weird, this one’s for you.
ABOUT FARRELL: Farrell Frankel is a Licensed Sports Dietitian who specializes in sports nutrition and athlete performance. Farrell has worked with elite athletes for ten years. Farrell worked at Penn State University as the Assistant Director of Nutrition, she was the Director of Football Nutrition at West Virginia University, and Farrell started the Sports Nutrition Program at Boston College where she was the Football Dietitian for 4 years. Farrell currently has a sports nutrition private practice where she meets with athletes for nutrition coaching. She also speaks to teams, high schools and colleges. Farrell has over 100K followers on Tik Tok and uses her platform, Fueled By Farrell, to highlight how sports dietitians are an integral member of an athletes performance team. Her Tik Tok videos have been featured by ACC Network, College Gameday, Overtime SZN and ESPN CFB.
Fueled by Farrell: https://www.fueledbyfarrell.com/
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