Observational StudyNurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Child ages 4 or 5 years at baseline;
2. Parent/ primary caregiver with legal representation (having 50% or more custody of child);
3. Parent/primary caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare (being with child when they are eating at least two times daily);
4. Caregiver with a cell phone that can be used to send and receive text messages. If there is more than one age-eligible child in the family, we will ask the caregiver to pick the index child.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Parent/primary caregiver <18 years of age;
2. Child history of major food allergies (e.g., peanuts);
3. Child medication use (e.g., insulin), developmental disability (e.g., autism) or medical condition(s) (e.g., diabetes) known to affect food intake and growth;
4. Foster child.