I've decided on a new schedule for my DD(age 3), which includes set meal and snack times. and if she doesnt eat a meal, she wont get a snack which means if she wont eat her dinner, she will go to bed hungry.She also wont be allowed drinks during meals, since I've noticed that she will drink her whole cup and then refuse her food.I'm so far beyond tired of making her seperate meals and fighting with her to get her to eat her dinner. im not a short order cook, she should eat what she is given and thats the end of it.I've given in to her for too long and I'm done.
Every meal always has at least one thing she likes so I don't see a problem with it.
We have a baby due in July, so its gonna be too much of a hassle to seperate meals every night.That and I don't want her setting a bad example for her sister when she goes on solid foods.
What do yo do when your kid(s) wont eat?
Since I apparently have to spell it out, this is her new schedule:
8am-breakfast
11:30am- lunch
2pm-snack
5pm-dinner
7:30pm-snack
8pm-bath
8:30pm-bed.
We have a rule and it works really great for us. Dont like dinner? 2 bites of each item, say "no thank you I dont care for this, but I appreciate you making it." They then make themselves a pb&j and a glass of milk. Even my 3 year olds were taugh this.
My 4 year old DS is relatively picky. I don't think he likes meat very much...and forget veggies. But he will eat fruit and if he won't eat what's for dinner, he gets a Pb sandwich.
personally I would not let my kids go hungry.
His older brother was the same way, now he is 5 and eats just fine.
I would try offering whatever the meal was as the snack if she gets hungry. IF she is hungry she will eat it. I don't think it is a good idea to let her go with out a meal and snack, especially for dinnertime, when she won't eat again until the morning. Try making a list of foods she likes and maybe give her a choice early in the day. " Would you like chicken nuggets and brocolli or Maccaroni with ham and peas."
They eat what they are given or they do not eat. Now as teenagers I do not have a problem with vegetables, milk, meat, nothing. Because they know I am not a short order cook and this is not a restaurant.
I don't purposefully make foods they hate, but I am not making separate meals for three children either.
Eat what I make, or go to bed hungry. Simple as that.
If mine chose not to eat what they are given they don't get a snack. I will occasionally put their dinner in the fridge and if they get hungry later they can eat that but more times than not if they dont want to eat when everyone else does then they go hungry for the night.
leaving baby alone while i do laundry?
- mcr17
on Apr. 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM