After 25 years of successfully investing in local nonprofits and helping find the best approaches to eradicating poverty and hunger, Share Our Strength launched No Kid Hungry in 2010.

Half of the world's children under age 5 are suffering from what is often called hidden hunger - meaning they are not consuming a sufficient variety of foods to ensure healthy growth and development. Their diets lack certain essential nutrients that are the building blocks of healthy brains, bones and bodies.

As they go through growth spurts and days of varying activity, they'll fill up when they need to. Some toddlers drink a lot of milk or juice, which can fill them up so much that they aren't hungry at mealtime. Limiting between-meal drinks to water can help with this.

Ask yourself about the type of hunger you are feeling. If physically you feel that you can go without food for a while more and want particular pleasure foods, this is probably false hunger.

The book is rated by Scholastic as grade 5.3 and for ages 11-13. Parents' concerns about The Hunger Games center around violence. The book has a lot of it, and it is graphic at times. Much of the plot focuses on "the games" in which children kill children.

having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.

Use vocabulary and concepts they are familiar with. It can be helpful to find a way to relate the topic to a situation in their lives in order to provide a certain level of context. For example, you can remind them that sometimes they may feel tired or cranky, but they feel better once they've had something to eat.

Generally speaking, there are two types of hunger - physical and psychological ( 3 ). Physical hunger can be defined as your body's drive to eat for survival, while psychological hunger is based more on cravings or external cues.

Your body relies on food for energy, so it's normal to feel hungry if you don't eat for a few hours. But if your stomach has a constant rumble, even after a meal, something could be going on with your health. The medical term for extreme hunger is polyphagia. If you feel hungry all the time, see your doctor.

If your child is a fan of action-packed adventures, they'll fall in love with Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games series. Ideal for older readers in grades 7-12, these books feature exciting story lines and memorable characters who will resonate with your child and get them excited about a daily reading routine.

Con: The story involves children killing children, and it's extremely violent. I will make recommendations for parents of young children (don't) and for parents of older children (very carefully). Hunger Games has a PG-13 rating, despite the clearly violent nature of the story.

So "starving" here is like saying I really, really feel like I'm gonna die because I haven't had anything to eat. So, you can use "starving" or you can use this other more formal word, "I'm famished." I'm famished. "I'm famished" means I'm very hungry, but it sounds much more polite.