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to give up nagging DS about breakfast?

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WitchWay · 17/01/2014 08:28

He's almost 16 & has always struggled to eat breakfast - just no appetite first thing in the morning. He also hates most "breakfast foods", preferring left-overs or a mug of soup or a slice of fruit pie, but not till about half eleven, which is what happens at the weekends. I watched him nibbling his way through one small plain biscuit the other morning, clearly forcing it down because "breakfast is good for you" & told him he could stop bothering if he wanted. He does have at least half a pint of milk at "breakfast time" so some calories there. He won't take anything to eat on the bus or at break - not hungry till lunchtime.

I was just the same, hating soggy cereal, preferring leftovers & at the same age my mum stopped nagging me about it. I still don't eat breakfast unless it's a full English in a hotel at about half ten

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Onefewernow · 17/01/2014 11:53

Witchway- grumpy. When my son gets Hine has has only eaten lunch all day. He is in a foul food until he has eaten.

He eats something immediately and then dinner at 6. Sometimes he snoozes on the sofa too. Boy, does he have a personality change after doing both.

15 year olds are just trying.

wobblyweebles · 17/01/2014 12:55

My DD 10 throws up any breakfast eaten before 7am. Not on purpose. As school starts at 7.30 that means no breakfast on school days.

nostress · 17/01/2014 13:24

My DS1 also 16 doesn't have anything at all before he leaves the house. When he gets to school he has a coffee. Yes a coffee -there's a costa in his school. He does eat well for the rest of the day though. I think I stopped telling him to eat breakfast when he started going to secondary school.

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