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[rainbowchip]

I tell Dylan that I'm going to feed his supper to the dog. Or I pretend I'm gonna eat it. It works most of the time.

[rainbowchip]

Well shit. That means I got about 4 months until that stops working!

[Deleted]

I get her Daddy to get stern with her. It always works.


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[tuck]

I'm no help. H still sucks at eating dinner.

[kkfeb04]

This is one of the things EI worked with us because he wouldn't sit to eat. We set the kitchen timer for 10 minutes and he has to sit with us, once the timer is up he can go play. If he doesn't eat, we wrap up his meal and about 30 minutes later he will eat it. He has SPD, so a lot of him not eating is textures. We could never tell him that the dog will eat it as he would feed it to Joey. Most days he eats before the timer goes off, we have been increasing it slowly to 18 minutes.

[fusion]

Jameson is younger, but I started trying to make it a game. The other night I asked if he could eat it like a puppy and he thought that was hilarious and finished his plate off.

[nilex0102]

This was the scene at my house an hour ago: DS in the floor crying that he DS not want anything I suggested for dinner. Ten minutes later complaining that my original suggestion was not done yet ( still in the oven since we had a long and winded argument to agree in it). Then he starts eating my food and after that his own as requested. All this while the baby is also hungry and not happy until she has scrambled egg in both hands. Apparently I was starving bth of them.
Anyway usually we will offer one alternative or tell him he will be hungry and eat a big breakfast. He eats well at school so I am not too concerned but yeah, we don't have the dinner thing quite figured out yet either.

[EnchantedSoul]

I would suggest what kkfeb posted. Set a timer on the table and tell him he has to stay there and eat til the timer goes off. Then let him up.

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[kistjenn]

Ashlynn is a picky eater too. What i find works (to a point) is a countdown......I do it with EVERYTHING.  I tell her, ok 10 minutes til dinner, 5 mintutes till dinner, 2 mins., 1 min, then....dinner time.  She complies pretty well.  It works GREAT with her at bed time.  Same process, I have no problem, she goes to bed awake, never fusses, never comes out.  I also let her choose 1 toy to sleep with every night too.
Another thing I do at dinner is give her a choice.......I ask her, Ashlynn do you want a quesadilla or a corndog?, fruit cup or banana, corn or cottage cheese,and so on.  I only give her an either or choice, but I think she feels like she is in controll, so she is always happy about it.

[livinreality]

Is he in a booster seat? My DS can eat without one, but gets in and out of the chair so it keeps coming back. We sometimes correct bad behavior and sometimes ignore it.

DS has to sit at the table till he is done, he has sat at the table for an extra 30 mins by himself before (a little annoying because I have to hang out in the kitchen and pretend not to be making sure he doesn't feed his food to the dog or get up). Sometimes I give him the option to just go to bed, which he choose once because DS2 and I watched his favorite movie with popcorn.

Also sometimes we just feed him but we tend to do this out and about or at grandparents or he really doesn't like what we are having.

[cat19]

He's getting old enough to be part of the prep process - this worked with Linz. We would talk about what we had available, and she would say what she would like. Then I would have her help do little things - pour milk that has been already measured by me, stir something, etc. The pride she got from helping translated into her eating her dinner since she helped make it.

[irishsara]

We went through a phase like this. I gave him 2 dice and he had to roll his bites. He got one chance all might to do a "roll over". (Say if he rolled a twelve). He liked the game of it and it took the pressure off us because it was him rolling.

[nilex0102]

Jan 26, 2013 21:58:05 GMT -5 cat19 said:

He's getting old enough to be part of the prep process - this worked with Linz. We would talk about what we had available, and she would say what she would like. Then I would have her help do little things - pour milk that has been already measured by me, stir something, etc. The pride she got from helping translated into her eating her dinner since she helped make it.

Mine loves to help with cooking. Sometimes he eats it, sometimes not.

[cat19]

Bonus - it rolls into when they are older. Linz can make a mean roux now.

[lolaburns]

Reading for future tips....

I'm am in love with the fact Cat used the word " roux" and Linz can make one - love a Southern Louisiana Girl 4Lyfe.


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[Deleted]

At our table DS1 has to eat with us, what we are eating, or no dessert (yogurt)/book before bed. If he outright refuses then he doesn't eat. No 2nd chances later. He won't starve himself.

I feel your frustration though, eating is such a contested issue with a lot of kids! Ugh, it makes me so worked up but I really try not to make it a big emotional deal and be matter of fact about it.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

I agree with Star. We never let eating become a point of contention. If H really doesn't like what we're having, then she can have toast or yogurt or a bowl of Butterbaby's cereal. If she eats two bites and says she's done, we remind her that she's the only one who knows if her belly is full or not, and she needs to eat enough to grow and play.

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[katfco]

Chiming in late, but we went through this with DD for a while. She would refuse to eat what I made because she said she didn't like it. I gave her the choice: eat what I made or she could have Chex or Cheerios (no "fun" cereal). She also had to have some kind of fruit with it. This let her have some choices and she got something to eat.

Now, she 's old enough to know sometims you have to eat what you don't like, so she eats or she doesn't eat. If she gets hungry later, she can eat it, but it'll be cold and I refuse to warm it up for her. There have been times she goes to bed without dinner, and if she's not hungry I limit her snacks for the next day because she obviously wasn't hungry enough for dinner.