How do I ?

Question

Get my 5 year old to eat when the family is? He will wait till the last minute. for example if we are at his grandparents home he won't want to eat untill we say it's time to go! or in the morning before school he will do the same! breakfast, lunch, dinner we need any ideas please!

Answer 1

Let him go without that meal, and he'll eat when it's time for the next meal. My 6 year old daughter is a picky eater. If she had her way, she'd only eat junk food. She tried to pull that mess on Thanksgiving last year. Everyone else was eating, and she kept saying she wasn't hungry. She had seen me make the pies, and called herself "holding out" for pie, even though I'd made it clear to her that she wasn't getting any pie until her dinner was eaten. She sat on my couch looking at cartoons pretending she wasn't hungry, but her stomach was practically beating her back! She finally caved in and ate dinner when she saw everyone else digging into that pie!

Answer 2

You make him sit at the table and eat and don't let him get up from the table until he eats or its time to go. He'll learn quick that when you say its time to eat its time to eat not when he feels like eating. Your the parent not him. Make him eat. Its going to be tough at first and you'll probably feel bad but you have to do it or its going to get worse. Maybe try rewarding him if he eats his dinner with everybody else like a big boy. Praise him also if he eats with everybody. Children love praise and rewards. Good luck.

Answer 3

the next time he dose that don't let him eat untill the next mael time.tell him that he needs to sit down w/the family.by the time comes he'll be hungry an dshould do what he is suppose to do.he is acting this way because you are allowing him to.

Answer 4

if you have to go then he will have to starve untill the next meal. Tell him that and i guarantee results. If he persists on doing that then just leave.

Answer 5

Don't feed him when he wont eat when he is told

Answer 6

you are very good