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Son is VERY picky! Anyone else have this problem?

Melanie - posted on 05/13/2011 ( no moms have responded yet )

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When my son first starting eating table food at 6 months,he'd eat everything and anything we put in front of him..Just after he turned 1,he started being picky,through trial and error we figured out the only things he'd eat were weiners,grilled cheese,fruit,veggies,cereal,dairy products,toast,pizza,and bologna. Even things "most kids like" like chicken nuggets and hamburgers he won't touch! Almost every night for supper we have to give him a hot dog or he doesn't eat meat at supper! I've tried not giving him hot dogs,and trying to get him to eat what we eat,but then he just doesn't eat meat! Mostly for supper,he eats his veggies and thats it. The odd night he will take a bite of meat,but not very often. For a while,we gave him his own english muffin pizza every night,but within a week he got sick of that. He loves eggs,but only fried,and scrambled.I just don't know what to do to get him to eat what we eat for supper! I really don't want to have to make him a seperate meal just so he eats something,I would really like him to eat what we eat! Anyone else have this trouble?If you've overcame it,how?! LOL

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Sacha - posted on 05/13/2011

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some times they only become picky because of the way that they are being told to eat or fed, and not necessarily the food they are eating. In the first few months you repeat a lot of foods day in and day out, and they get used to the tastes of it even if they don't like it, then we move on to giving them different foods each day and each meal time. Then they start to get picky about things, either they liked what they had the day before and want it again, or they just don't feel like eating something... it could also be that we are getting too worked up while trying to get them to eat and calm down and enjoy what we make. With our son we try to give him a bit of what we are eating at the table at meal times, if he sees us eating it usually he will eat a bit, but sometimes he just doesn't want it at all, not necessary that he won't ever eat it, but just not then. So then we offer him something else. If he gets very upset at the table and makes a fuss over the food we try not to over react, because then they will associate your reaction to that food in particular and will then become a very picky eater.

I am not too sure if that was helpful or not, but whatever you do try not to give in to him all the time but also don't force him to eat anything if he really doesn't want it, try it again another day instead!

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