My Boy can t eat?

Question

I have a 5 year child which is a problem. He can play well read well but can not eat well . He take an hour to chew a piece of bread can anybody suggest me the solution

Answer 1

Has he always been this way? Sometimes kids just go through phases when they are growing and sometimes just don't want to eat. Just make sure he is getting plenty of fluids, keep him hydrated. If it is just a phase I'm sure he'll get his appetite back real soon. If not I would consult his Dr. to make sure nothing is wrong. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Since they are going through a phase: he’s stopped eating.

Well, not really, but it sometimes seems like it. They certainly doesn’t eat very much and their grown suddenly picky. For the amount of activity they do in a day he doesn’t seem to get adequate calories, and the kinds of food he craves aren’t exactly healthy. When we serve lunch, for example, and we have a sandwich, grapes, and a handful of chips, we have to give him the chips last (while the rest of us get them with our meal) or he will only eat the chips and be finished with the meal. Withholding the chips is the only way we can get him to eat the healthy food.

They used to be an amazing eater. They ate everything, and vast quantities of it! I guess he was growing and catching up, though, and now he’s all caught up and ready to act like your typical American picky preschooler. Eating nothing. Subsisting on air and a slice of cheese.

Luckily, I have prior experience with your typically eating disordered 5 year old.

Starting when Big J was three I swear he lived for two years on a cup of milk and a handful of goldfish crackers a day. He ate practically nothing, plus he was super picky about what he would eat. Nothing slimy, crunchy, too hot, sour, salty, or hard to chew. Nothing weird. Nothing vegetable-like, except broccoli (thank goodness for that). Nothing that was a funny color or shape. Nothing he hadn’t already tried before (which was difficult, of course, since he’d tried only a few of the food possibilities available in this world).

Things he would eat included the aforementioned goldfish crackers, vegetarian chicken nuggets, veggie burgers (we weren’t vegetarian; these were things that I could microwave in under a minute and voila- lunch!), baked tofu (made by his grandma – not me. I didn't do it right - not that I wanted to. I'm not very fond of baked tofu), grapes, apples, if cut very thin and with the skin off, peanut butter sandwiches, grilled cheese, and pizza. Maybe yogurt, if I got the right kind (vanilla Yoplait, if I remember correctly). Oh, and McDonald’s food, of course, lest you think the kid was a vegetarian or a health nut. He’d eat that, as well as any kind of cookie, cake, or chip he could find.

So there wasn’t much variety to what he was eating, and what was worse, he ate almost none of it.

Things started to change when he was about 5, and now that he’s 7 he eats a lot. He is a growing boy, after all. He says he’s hungry all the time. Plus, he eats a much better variety. That’s due to his dad and me putting our collective feet down about the subject. About half-way through his third year we quit cooking him special meals and he was forced to eat (or not) what we ate.

That’s what we with Little J now: feed him what the rest of us eat. I do find myself holding back certain part of the meal for last, however. Usually it’s the carbohydrate portion of the meal. If you give him dinner that’s zucchini, chicken, and potato, he’ll eat the potato and call it done. Or if he is served noodles, green beans, and a pork chop – it’s the noodles he goes for. Unless we tell him he has to eat the meat on his burger he'll only eat the bun. He's a carbohydrate addict. So we give him fewer of those and seconds only if he finishes the rest.

That is what we call eating disorder of a preschooler.But that stage is normal to all preschooler.

Answer 3

Don't worry its a faze. All kids go threw it. My one son all he would do is chew his meat, suck the juice out then spit a dry piece of meat out. Doc said he got all the nutrition he needed threw the juice. Kids are funny like that. I would only be concerned if he was loosing a large amount of weight. I agree with the first gentleman.

Answer 4

some kids are lazy chewers. Take him to a dentist to rule anything to do with teeth or jaws out. It just may be he is a fussy eater. If you give him foods he loves does he eat faster? If so i think he is probably fine

Answer 5

I agree with royalpain.
Don't put attn on it.
Unless you live in a third world country and there is a problem in general but no to worry.

Answer 6

He will eat when he gets hungry. When he does not eat his lunch, leave the food for him to finish later and do not give him snacks unless he eats.

Answer 7

Honestly, he will eat when he is hungry.

Just don't force him.

Offer him the food at mealtime. If he doesn't want to eat, don't make him. If he does, he will.

He ain't gonna starve himself to death.