hi I have had great advise on here before and wonder if you can help me today? My LO 2.3 years and has always been a poor eater with a small appetite. As a baby he had silent reflux and a suspected milk protein intolerance so was given prescribed milk which he hated so wouldn't take much of. He has now been cleared of both. He takes movical for constipation problems and has been told to continue with this for a number of years. The problem is his attitude towards food is getting worse. When given a meal he starts creating and carrying on and rarely wants to eat it/will eat it. For a long time we have tried to get him to eat at the table/highchair but he just shouts get out as he wants to leave. As a last resort we have resulted in letting him watch the TV sometime to get him to eat as this distracts him and he will eat (but I don't really want him to get into that habit) we don't offer lots of choices and if he wont eat we calmly say fine as we don't think forcing the issue is helping in anyway and we don't want him to start to have a long lasting problem with food. He doesn't like sweet products like chocolate, cakes etc so that isn't an issue. He does ask for cheese and milk ALL day but is only offered them as part of a meal or snack. In fact we have tried to limit milk to bedtime as he would live on that alone!! (cows milk) He does wait for the milk though and still paddies and tantrums from about 4 o clock until he finally gets it before bed. We hoped by sticking to our guns for a long time now it may have changed his behaviour to waiting for milk (instead of eating his tea) but it hasn't. He would drink 3 bottles before bed so we have tried hard to dramatically cut it down...but he still tantrums for more every night and has done for many months. Not sure how to change all this? Help!! I know the phrase he will eat if he is hungry and look at what he eats over a week rather than a day but any other advise to reducing the tantrums related to food and milk. Thanks
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2 year old milk monster and tantrums over food..any advise please?
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NessaWH123 · 30/05/2015 15:33
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