VERY PICKY 2 YR OLD...

Re: VERY PICKY 2 YR OLD...

• sugarbear0524 member

  January 2014

  I went to a Project Mom seminar given by a nutritionist. Her advice has really stuck with me. She said that it is our job as parents to decide when to eat and what is served. It's the kid's job to decide how much and whether to eat. They won't starve themselves. She said just to put a healthy meal in front of them each time, and when the meal is over, the kitchen closes. It re-opens for a snack later on and for the next meal. No short-order cooking for each one. The whole family eats whatever is presented.  That's what I've tried to do.

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• JMU_Bride09 member

  January 2014

  I second what sugarbear0524 says. You can try giving two options for breakfasts/lunches and have him pick one, but ultimately, give him a healthy meal and he will eat.

  
  

   
  

  
  

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• blu-eyedwife member

  January 2014

  Toddlers go through eating phases - sometimes it feels like they are bottomless pits, sometimes it feels like they haven't eaten anything for days.  It kind of balances itself out. 
  
  This is also the stage where they start learning and trying to control their environment (think about how often you hear "no help, do it myself!" or some variation.) and food is an area they can control.  So try not to stress too much about the pickiness.  Chances are, your son doesn't actually dislike the food choices, he's just attempting to express and control something about his little world.  Like both pps have said, set limits for that world (no short order cooking) but let him have some free reign inside those limits (like not fighting him to eat.)
  

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• TiffanyBerry member

  January 2014

  Keep offering healthy foods, the same foods you eat, and a healthy variety.  Let him pick what he eats or not from that.

  
  

  Kids go through picky phases.  Unless you are dealing with a sensory processing issue, a true taste aversion, or some other issue that is significant (which, likely, would have shown some signs before this), then it's a normal picky phase about kids getting to control things.  It might last for a while, and it will likely shift what he is picky over, but he'll eat.  He'll be fine.

  
  

  

  

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• ZoeyMarie member

  January 2014

  I'm right there with you... I just keep offering the foods I want my boys to eat, and if they don't eat that food, they don't eat at all until the next scheduled snack/meal. 

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• veetveet member

  January 2014

  Kids eat when they are hungry... offer things he normally likes and of course some new healthy foods. If my daughter doesn't want to eat- that's fine.... but I make it clear there are no snacks/dessert etc.
  
  I find letting her help me cook helps!

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• fancynewbeesly member

  January 2014

  I started enforcing the "no thank you bite." DD isn't that picky, but a lot of times she has a hard time wanting to taste a new food---once she tastes it--she usually declares it "delicious." So we do a no thank you bite.

  
  

  I also serve her food in stages---I tend to give her the new food/food that she isn't as crazy about first (veggies, some meats, etc.) After she takes the "no thank you" bite---which usually ends up with her eating about 50% of what is on the plate--than I will give her something I know she will like (the rest of the meal) 

    

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