more with my 3yr old wont eat dinner reply.?

Question

i have tried sitting her at the table with everyone and she gets up and runs away she doesn't eat from 3 in the avro till dinner.

Answer 1

She'll eat when she's hungry. The more you make a big deal out of it, the more she'll fight you. Just ignore it.

Answer 2

Your daughter could be a snacker. Our bodies are designed to eat little meals throughout the day as opposed to three big meals that most people think is healthy. A tip I found that works with my 2 year old is to take a muffin tin and fill each of the cups with a different food. I fill them with, for example: 1 tin of applesauce, 1 tin of cubed cheese, 1 tin of cut up tofu/chicken/fish, 1 tin of almonds, 1 tin of kidney beans, 1 tin of rice. She gets to choose what she wants to eat, there's a variety of healthy food, and there are always 3 things that I offer that I know that she'll eat (in this case, cheese, rice, and kidney beans.) This is also a good, non-threatening way to offer new foods. If she tries them, great, if not, that's ok too because sometimes it takes a little while to warm to a new food.

We don't do this for every meal, but if I'm especially worried about how she's eating, I'll pull out a muffin tin and it usually gets her back on track to eating something.

I wanted to add that at this age, they're realizing that they don't have a lot of control over what goes on in their life, but they have realized that they can control what they do and do not eat. They like to exercise that control as often as they can, at least I know my 2 year old does!

I've heard that "Finicky Eaters: What to Do When Kids Won't Eat" by Lori Ernsperger is a pretty good book.

Answer 3

he's an purely newborn, isn't he? I had a similar problem with my daughter. that's probably slightly bit shyness. whilst my daughter become in daycare, she would not touch her nutrition, and going potty become only no longer completed! It got here right down to the reality that she ought to no longer get soft with having an aim audience. This become solved, ultimately, via allowing her to have a "clubhouse" to consume her lunch in. She only mandatory some privateness. As for the potty problem, we worked out a time table for her. She have been given the bathing room all to herself for ten minutes each 2 hours. It became out that the biggest difficulty there become she become afraid that somebody might hear her going potty, so those ten minutes have been arranged to coincide whilst (just about) every person become outdoors. It took a quick time, yet she did get used to it, and gradually worked into starting to be to be portion of the gang. She become only so shy and not used to having different persons around.

Answer 4

at that age kids dont always want to eat but you need to continue to offer her nutritious meals at every sitting she will eat when she is hungry but do not give her junk if you are having this problem but if she is hungry between meals offer her some fruit or a small piece of cheese at the table to hold her over until the next meal

Answer 5

I used to have the same problem with my daughter and I would put her in a high chair and strp he in. She would scream and cry to get out. I just left her in there and eventually she sould eat. I did that for like 2 or 3 days. Now I can tell her its time to eat and she sits there at the table with us and eats like a normal kid.

Answer 6

Don't let her eat except for at the table. She'll get used to it pretty quickly.

Answer 7

sounds like she feels like she dont have to listen to you. Id give her a choice either the tabel or bed. little kids hate going to bed worse than any punishment well at least in my experience they feel they are missing something. Give her that choice. If she still dont sit down. put her in her room. be consistant and dont give in.