DS eats best at daycare

mrsmikey

Is this the case with anyone else?  DS eats like a champ at daycare, and will eat all of anything they give him.  At home meal times are a battle, and he doesn't usually eat much.  I can't figure out why.  I'm beginning to think it's just b/c I'm there and he wants down.  I've tried to mimick everything they do to no avail.  His meal times are the same, he gets the same kinds of food, I've tried sitting with him and helping him, leaving him alone, or just being in the kitchen with him but not helping him.  Nothing seems to work.  It doesn't matter if he's eating on his own or eating with us.  It's gotten to the point where we don't go out to eat with him anymore, which I said I'd never let happen.  Any suggestions?  The daycare teachers said they hear this alot, but I guess it just doesn't make sense to me.

katy75

DD eats much better at both her daycare center and at our private lady!  I have no freaking clue why!!  She inhales food with them - anything and everything!

No suggestions, but you are not alone.

Sometimes, though, I think it's a power/control issue she is starting between me and her.  I've just started to take the attitude that I decide what/when/where she eats and she decides if/how much she eats.  I don't know what else to do.

MamaNikki

Absolutely!!  DS eats all of whatever they give him at daycare and not as much at home.  We talked to our pedi about it at his 18 month appointment and he jokingly called it a type of peer pressure.  All the other kids are sitting & eating, so I guess I will too!  I have wondered if it's the routine of it all as well.  I'm sure that helps.  At home, DS is distracted by his toys and us.  We go through the same thing some nights.

JulieandBen

Ditto above poster. He's watching his friends eat and he wants to do the same thing.

My friend who has older kids told me there is nothing more frustrating than hearing all the things his kids are willing to eat at their friends' houses yet they won't go near the same things at home.

Kids. Gotta love them.

 There were a few months where the only restaurant we could take Jack to was at our club since they have a daycare upstairs. It was a nightmare, but that phase ended rather quickly. Just know you can get your restaurant baby back.
 

Max'smom

I talked to DCP about this today because DS would not eat dinner last night. She said that it is common to eat prefectly fine at daycare and not at home and sometime vice versa. Ask what they do differently, maybe there is nothing. Out DCP told us that it may be a one time thing or could be a phase he will go through for awhile. GL.

tiff16

DD biggest and best meal is lunchtime.  Dinner is usually something small.