Dd is 4. Staring school in Spet. Bright, energetic, argumentative, very skinny (only weighs 2 stone).
She is not interested in breakfast. From what I can see, she isn't keen on eating till she's been up for a few hours. Hwr, when she is a pre school, the first snack isn't till about 10.30am, which I feel is too late for the first fuel of the day.
We have tried different foods, cajoling, bribing, threatening. Once rilled though, she tends to get a grump about everything...
So, should we just give it up and let her go without eating (and drinking btw)anything, or should we insist, deal with the loud, angry, drawn out consequences, with the satisfaction that she has eaten a couple of teaspoons worth of cereal?
She is not a best eater at the best of times, and at the mo is extremely oppositional, so we have been trying to be low key, and just offer food and accept when she refuses. What would you do?
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How to deal - minimal breakfast and a fight, or nothing to eat and no fight?
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katepol · 03/07/2007 16:17
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