Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- 1. Hispanic or Black parent/primary caregiver race/ethnicity, based on the participating caregiver's self-disclosure;
- 2. Low household income, based on US poverty income guidelines for WIC/Head Start eligibility;
- 3. Child ages 4 or 5 years at baseline;
- 4. Parent/ primary caregiver with legal representation (having 50% or more custody of child);
- 5. Parent/primary caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare (being with child when they are eating at least two times daily);
- 6. 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.
Ages Eligible for Study:
4 Years to 5 Years (CHILD)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes