I am a single mom with a 2 yr old son who is a very picky eater, he just touches it then won't eat.i need help

Answer 1

Make sure he's not filling up on milk or juice.
Be sure to offer the foods you choose for him to eat. Don't resort to junk just to get him to eat, he'll only learn that if he refuses to eat healthy food, you'll give him whatever he wants.
He won't starve himself, he will eat when he's hungry.
My daughters have both gone through food stages where they eat and then for a few weeks/months they don't eat as much. It has to do with how much their bodies need food. If they aren't growing as fast, they don't need as much. When they are going through a growth spurt they eat like crazy.
Don't stress over it, it could cause food resistance.
Keep mealtimes light and happy.
My only rule is that they try one bite of everything. Both have had things they tried many, many times and hated only to have the next time they try it they love it. (My kids are 9 and 4.)
Good luck and don't worry.
(Unless his doctor says he is UNDERweight and needs to gain some.)

Answer 2

My 2 1/2 year old son is also a picky eater. He has gone through phases of eating lots and then some days he will just pick at his food. I do my best to give him healthy choices - I keep tons of mandarin oranges, applesauce and peaches along with a cupboard full of Cheerios on hand for those days when he's not interested in what I've prepared. He's not a big vegetable eater either, so I have learned to chop up broccoli and carrots into tiny tiny peices and I put them into my spaghetti sauce. He eats it up every time and gets a healthy serving of vegetables. If your son isn't eating enough to stay healthy, I'd take him to the doctor's for some advice. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Just keep giving them to him. If he doesn't eat a couple of meals don't cave and give him junk food. A lot of parents make this mistake afraid of "starving" the child, but a 2 year old will eat if he gets hungry enough since they are still little enough to have some of that "just eat now" instinct, and they wont die from missing a meal or two. Sometimes it helps if you have maybe 2 kinds of veggies or fruit and let him choose one. This makes him feel in charge, while really you are still controlling his food intake, and you don't have to make a whole other meal just for him. My son used to be really picky, but if i let him choose between say two Gerber lunches, or if he wants carrots or peas with dinner he is a lot happier and still eats healthy! Also, you can sneak foods in, mash vegetables and add them to sauces, things like that will make your whole family healthier and give you child the nutrition with out any fight!

Answer 4

How picky is your 2 year old? Sometimes you have to make your child happy if he likes meat than serve him meat and veggies if he does not want to eat the other stuff than don't fores him. If he does not eat than don't reward him no candy or desert until he eats. Sometime you have to trick him like I did with my daughter. She wouldn't eat and we told her that the meat she is eating is chicken. Pork chops (chicken) Steak ( chicken) thats how we got her to eat meat. Sometime you have to trick them to eat. Or share your food with the child Like I did with my so he can get us to eating the same food. But at the age of two he should be eating graduate for toddlers. You need to try different thing with your child. Good luck

Answer 5

Have him choose some of the foods he want to eat. If he just want to eat junk food then give him a piece of fruit then if he eats that then he can have a small portion of the junk food he wants to eat

Answer 6

our son is kind of like that, he actually wont eat things because of how they feel. we just feed him the things we know he eats and try and slip in others when we can. it seems that after he tastes something he likes, it doesn't matter how it feels anymore.

Answer 7

try mixing stuff he dosent like with stuff he does i played the blind fold game with my son and let him taste thing he liked and didnt like and when he ate something he normally wouldnt eat and liked it because he couldnt see it i would show him what it was and then he would eat it good luck!!!