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[lollardfish]

My son's eating hygiene has collapsed. He now only willingly eats edamame, green beans, plain noodles, yoghurt, fruit, cottage cheese. He used to eat many more things. Like, over the last weekend. It's very frustrating.

Edit - Sweet potatoes back on the menu. Fish sticks and chicken nuggets, spaghetti-os (indistinguishable from the food he ate from jars) still off, fruit-and-nut bread still on.

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[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i have no children and you can laugh at me in three years when i am doing the same thing but: what i have heard and what i am going to try is that as long as they're getting enough calories and a wide enough selection of nutrients (not going to die of scurvy or anything), let them eat what they want to eat, and eventually they'll come back to eating a wider variety of things.

i also have a horror of giving godot food issues, so that's why i'm excited about this theory.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

We try hard to subscribe to this theory. The difficulty is when it turns random. Five days ago eating chicken, now hurling it and sobbing when it appears.

The truth of the matter is that he's turning two, emotionally, but lacks the two-year-old communication skills (such as they are).

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

yeeeeah. that's hard.

are you a computer gamer at all? someone i used to know used to refer to things like this as her children levelling up. right before you finish a level of, say, diablo, you have to do something really super hard. seems appropriate and also geeky. not that that's a bad thing.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Hah. Yeah. Except that for Nico, the moments of leveling up last twice (or more) as long, are much more challenging than they are in general for others, and he handles it with pretty good humor.

[guppiecat]

They're longer because he's multi-class. That's what the extra chromosomes are for, right?

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

There's a theory floating around that parenting a 2-year-old is training for parenting a teenager. "Loved it five days ago, now hurls it away and sobs when it appears" is a great description of teens...

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Hah. Yeah.

Fortunately the raviolini are being shoveled in right now.

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

probably tired of chicken. I know I would be. Toddler can not live on chicken alone.....hehehe....

I think when he flings the food off to the side I can hear him loud and clear. Not as verbal as we may prefer and yet gets the message across.

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

Plus we get kids who are more likely to have food issues. they may be picky eaters and feel the need to hoard food all in one! Hooray!


Me I'm not afraid.


this is after all why Ghod gave us vitamins in tablet form.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Which Nico conveniently now will just pick up and chomp.