Am I in the wrong section? Should this be in behaviour or food? The food threads seem to be about the correct way to store frozen artichokes or when is an egg scrambled? So many questions; my problem however seems to cross the boundary of both food and behaviour and concerns my son's attitude towards food.
In particular anything that is none of the following a carbohydrate, fruit, vegetable or tomato sauce.
He is eighteen months old happy, confident and curious. He attends nursery three days a week and according to the birth to three matters strategy is meeting government expectations.
Whilst at nursery he eats everything, regularly requesting ?more? he has yet to meet a food he does not like, this appetite for food is replicated when he spends time with his grand parents; he spends two days per week with them [at our house]
Yet with his mother and I, at meal time are greeted with tantrums if we deviate from pasta, fruit and vegetables or bread. The meltdown is huge, distressing and ultimately divisive, [we disagree on how to deal with this, though pull together eventually) we have tried every recipe in the Annabel Karmel book
Other Things we have tried.
- Not providing an alternative, to his main meal.
- Having time outs at the dinner table between mouthfuls
- Removing him from the dinner table
- Bribery-Toys-dessert-garden-kisses-etc
- New chair-relented and bought a Tripp Trapp
- sticking rigidly to the nursery routine at weekends
This weekend I snapped and left for an hour, the only thing he had eaten in two days were a bowl of porridge, various fruit and vegetables and milk.
He is winning the battle of the dinner table; I fear I am on the slippery slope that leads to feeding him wotsits, fruit shoots and cheese strings until he is eighteen and ending up badly titled documentary on BBC3