DD is 14 months and has always been stong willed and highly strung. I love these characteristics in her, but they can make some things tricky.
I know IWBU for giving her junk food in the first place, but now I am really trying to improve her diet.
She wants to live on a diet of hotdogs/sausages, chips and a couple of peas. She will eat a little pasta in tomato sauce with cheese, weetabix (without sugar), a little banana, raisins and junk food such as pizza.
I don't feed her junk food all the time, I offer healthy food, but she hardly touches it.
I go to effort to make things like sweet potato chips or vegetable soup with crusty bread, but she still eats hardly any.
I want to go with the approach of offering well-balanced meals and snacks, letting her take or leave them and not supplementing with food she prefers.
The problem is that any time I've tried this, she's hardly eaten anything and then woken up crying for most of the night as she's hungry. I work full time and struggle with lots of sleepless nights.
So aibu to try this approach? Is it possible that she'll starve herself? How long with the sleepless nights last?
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To take a hard line approach with my toddler's diet?
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ChunkysMum · 18/01/2013 13:51
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