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Let him eat what he wants. Better for him to have a good relationship with food and fed is best. Frankly I hated “healthy” food when I was that age and my parents forcing it on me throughout childhood led me to make really poor eating decisions as an adult.
One thing that my wife and I have done with some degree of success is to just give everything at once. Pasta, veggie, dessert, etc. is all on one plate at the same time, that way there’s no pressure associated with any specific food and there’s no high value placed on any specific food
Big little feelings is fantastic. Their voices are cringe though.
1) In addition to something he’ll eat, just keep putting it on his plate and encourage him to take a bite. 2) for a certain snack - the only options are fruit or veggies - If they are hungry enough, they will eat it 3) Sometimes going to bed hungry is fine - if you gave them every opportunity to eat a meal. Eventually he’ll come back around. Might be better approaches but these seem to work for us.
That’s our approach—for dinner, if they don’t like what we’re having (we do still try to have things they like), if they don’t want it, that’s fine; we’ll put it away for now and they can have it later when they’re hungrier.
I want to teach my kids to eat when they’re hungry—not just because “eat now, it’s time.”
My 3 yo is the same. It is a phase they go through. I’m also researching techniques and foods to try.
We focus on dinner being stuff the 3 yo and our 1 yo can eat, chopped up veggies, ground beef, chopped up roast potatoes, rice. We also found that for our kids, we have a higher chance of dinner success if we have dinner ready and on the table as soon as they get home from daycare.
Point is try things out and see what works. Also, what works now may not work in a few months so don’t give up!
Same here sometimes! My 3 yo sometimes accepts her broccoli if I hand feed it into her mouth. Try different fruits- mine stopped eating apples but now likes oranges.
Find one very healthy thing they love and just make sure they eat that with each meal…….
Model by example…. Not suggesting it works overnight or even within a year
When our kids were younger we fed the the vegetables first while they were still very hungry, with nothing else in the table to distract. Typically something like broccoli with butter and garlic. This built a habit and It worked for us as now they are teens they always want vegetables.