Quick question about son's eating?

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    The best advice I've heard from my daughter's pediatrician is this:

    It is the parent's job to prepare and offer a variety of healthy foods. It is the child's job to decide what and how much to eat.

    This. Although they don't get dessert if they don't eat their dinner, because then they are not hungry (unless it's something they really don't like, then they just have to have one bite).

    About breakfast, just send him to nursery without it. He'll live. And maybe he'll get hungrier the next morning.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,009 Member
    Although they don't get dessert if they don't eat their dinner, because then they are not hungry

    Right! I always tell my son, "if you're not hungry for chicken and strawberries, then you're not hungry for cookies either...
  • castlerobber
    castlerobber Posts: 528 Member
    1. So my son has quite a varied, healthy, diet compared to other children his age that I know. Every dinner has at least 4 different vegetables in it, as well as some protein and carbs and they are all homemade as much as possible.

    However recently he has started to become quite picky with what carbs he eats in general at dinner - he will eat all of the meat on his plate, but will barely touch the pasta/rice/homemade chips etc.

    If he's eating meat and several different vegetables at most meals, he's getting plenty of nutrition. it's perfectly OK for him to skip the grains and potatoes. Let him be. This is a battle that doesn't need to be fought.

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