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| Title: | Parenting |
| Notice: | READ 1.27 BEFORE WRITING |
| Moderator: | CSC32::DUBOIS |
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| Created: | Wed May 30 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 27 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1364 |
| Total number of notes: | 23848 |
533.0. "2.5 yr old refusing meals" by ICS::NELSONK () Thu Nov 29 1990 16:14
2.5-yr.old James is turning into a "breatharian." If it isn't
hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries or Aunt Jemima toaster waffles,
it doesn't get eaten. (He does drink milk, however.) When we call him
to the dinner table, he walks over, says, "I don't want _that_," and
backhands his plate across the table. I don't mind that he doesn't
want to eat as much as I mind the snotty behavior. If you ask him
if he wants, say, an English muffin, he'll say yes, and as soon as you
put it in front of him he says, "I don't want _that_," and the plate
goes flying. I don't want to starve the kid, but that's what I've
started doing: If he doesn't want what's put in front of him, he
doesn't eat, period. Our meals are pretty plain -- chicken,
spaghetti, etc. -- so it's not like I'm putting him out. These
are meals he liked until about three or four months ago. Any other
suggestions out there? He's already at the 15th percentile on weight
and the 35 percentile on height, so he's kind of small for his age,
although developmentally he's on target to slightly ahead. He's
healthy as a horse, knock on wood. How long is this going to last?
I'm getting so I hate meals.
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| 533.1 | pointers | ISTG::HOLMES | | Thu Nov 29 1990 18:07 | 9 |
| There is lots of good advice about this in two other notes -- 314 and
458. Basically, the feeling seems to be that he won't starve himself,
so offer nutritous things and let him decide whether or not to eat
them. As far as flinging the plate across the table, that sounds like
a good candidate for time-out. I'd just be sure to make it clear that
the time-out is for flinging the plate, not for refusing to eat. Good
luck to you.
Tracy
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| 533.2 | My views | ATLACT::FLEMING_A | | Tue Dec 11 1990 10:54 | 15 |
| I have the same problem with my two year old. We offer him the same
thing we are eating and he almost always ends up eating cereal or
peanut butter and jelly. I figure you can't make him and I will not
force him to eat what we eat but I want him to eat something. I will
not give him cookies until he eats something decent. Sooner or later -
if he won't sit down with us to have regular meal he will ask for pbj
or cereal. Sometimes he will only drink juice for dinner?! I worry
about him getting enough to eat. We also give him Flintstones vitamins
which he loves.
I wouldn't put up with that plate-flinging - I would ask him to leave
the table and tell him he will be spanked or put in his room or
whatever. When he gets hungry enough he will tell you!!
Anne
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