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October 14, 2006, 7:54 pm PDT
Picky Eaters
Quote From: leanne1I am at wits end with my 3 1/2 year old. He ate a half a bowl of cereal for breakfast, a granola bar at snack time. We had to force him to eat two tiny pieces of a ham wrap for lunch, and he may have eaten a small piece of turkey for supper. He likes most things, just doesn't need hardly anything to eat. He is not very big for a 3 1/2 year old. He weighs about 30 lbs, but the doctor is not concerned. In our house, we eat 3 meals a day. His 5 year old sister sits at the table and eats. They eat what I make and that is why they do like most things I put on their plates. I do not want to change our lifestyle becuase he has no appetite. I want him to sit at the table and eat what we are eating while we are eating it. He loses dessert if he doesn't finish , or gets down from the table a half hour later to play and still has not eaten. Tonight I told him he would not go to soccer if he didn't eat. Of course he didn't eat and so he didn't go to soccer. He is upset right now but I don't think it will matter tomorrow. It will be the same thing. I need help now!! I am afraid I've let it go too long, (6 months maybe) I don't know how to fix it. Please!!!!! any advice. I persoanllly do not worry about my kids when it comes to eating. Some days they eat really well then others, tehy don't want much at all. I do not buy many snacks for the home, it is rare to have them actually.
I cook meals that I know they like and with some things they don't care for, I will mix in a casserole or something, like my girls won' t hardly eat brocoli (they used to) but I will cook up some chicken and chop it up and mix it inw ith some rice and add chopped up brocoli and they love it.
At least he is eating and you can remind him that this is dinner and you need to eat this, there is nothing else. I I always set out something that I know my girls will eat, and if they only eat one thing that is fine with me, at leat it is nutricious and we are eating together and their is no dessert of they donlt eat the "good for you food" I do not make my girls clean their plates, I give them small portions but even then, they don't always feel like eating, they know the rules, we follow them.
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