Ds2 is 3.5 - I am led to believe it is relatively normal for children this age to appear to be suffering terribly in the grips of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
According to Ds2, he is NOT small, or little, or cute, his hair is NOT curly - indeed, he is "YUGE" and "GIANT" and "Nenormous!".
He is also the fastest runner, and the strongest lifter, and other things he endearingly perceives to mean he is a boy.
But then we his the minefield that is food.
He has an extremely active and quite tall older brother. They do EVERYTHING together except go to school. Ds1 needs a small adult's size dinner. He DOES need it, he's not being greedy, he's not remotely overweight, he just uses a lot of energy.
Ds2 does not need this adult sized dinner. The amount ds2 should and does actually happily eat would fit onto a saucer. He's short, and pleasingly rounded.
But he objects vociferously to being served a smaller meal. He will not accept that he is smaller than his brother, I have measured them both and shown him, but it does not support the idea that he is the "nornousest boy inna world!" therefore this information is rejected without a glance.
I cannot bear to keep serving mssive portions that I know he won't eat, I have tried giving both boys smaller dinners - cue ds1 practically drinking his then eating 3 or 4 sandwiches.
What do I do?
I don't really want to pop Ds2's bubble, but neither can I starve his older brother in order to support this fantasy of being 4 foot taller than he actually is.
He's really quite a greedy little boy!
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Ds2, his God complex and his subsequent eating habits.
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colditz · 29/09/2009 11:19
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