"What can I have now?"

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Aibu or is this possibly the most annoying thing a child can say to you every 5 minutes of the day?

It doesn't matter if he has just eaten, turned his nose up at dinner and declared he isn't hungry (lies!), or if like today he has been vomiting and so restricted to toast, rice and apples.

"What can I have now?" Has officially become more annoying than the phase he went through of just saying "mum?" then ignoring me when I answered him.

If he's been vomiting then he shouldn't be eating anything but if he is well enough to eat then should eat what he wants.

It's fine for a vomiting child to eat if they feel like eating. The BRAT diet is boring apparently, and he still wants to know what else there is.

Why would you feed a vomiting child?

I'd be giving him water only for now.

Sorry, posted too soon.

Mine used to keep asking for things to eat when they were bored, so I'd tell them to find something to do.

If the child is constantly vomiting, especially after eating, then get them checked for coeliacs. Simple blood test, tells you if gluten is the problem.

If it's one off vomiting, give them want ever they can manage to keep down.

If it's persistent, then perhaps the alternative is: "you may have what you didn't finish earlier" or is that too harsh?

Because he's hungry? It even says to feed them if they want food here:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/vomiting-children-babies/Pages/Introduction.aspx

worra - good point - my mum used to say this constantly when she was comfort eating

Clearly misjudged the tone of my post. Should have put "lighthearted" in the title maybe?

I totally agree with you lol. My two are always asking what they can have next!!!!!

I don't know how old your son is, OP, but could you ask him what it is that he fancies? It might give you a bit of an idea as to what he's feeling like foodwise. I remember saying this sometimes when I was a kid, it's because what I was given didn't hit the spot. My mum would then suggest things and just the thought of them made me feel ill so eventually I would just quit it. I don't think it's boredom particularly, possibly hunger, possibly just out of sorts.

I didn't think the thread was lighthearted though, do you? Poor kid, not nice to feel sick.

I was going to post this the other day!

Sometimes DS isn't even finished a meal before he wants the next thing.

He gets plenty to eat and has plenty to do so I find it hard to draw the line between hunger and greed.

Mine says 'I'm hungreeeeeee!'
Meaning - 'I want sweets!'
Will then moan he's not hungry when a meal arrives not long later.
If he's been vomiting, stick to dry carbs.

I think a nice variety of snacks makes this worse because in between meals are not as boring as actual meals. Offer the same cucumber slices or cream crackers every time you'll soon sort habit from hunger.

My focus was more on the fact that his demanding more or different food all the time (not just when he's sick) was driving me mad, rather than on the fact that he is ill.

If I ask what he wants I'm sure it will be endless requests for cake and sweets, at least it's not just my bottomless pit child

DS, 5yo, does this. Drives me up the wall with it. His latest is to eat his dinner and then ask for pudding, after dinner pudding is usually always yoghurt or fruit, he has started asking "can I have a ham sandwich?". He's disappointed that a ham sandwich is not an acceptable pudding choice. He's also disappointed that breakfast doesn't come with a pudding. When we were on holiday he asked for cake for pudding then asked for ice cream as a pudding to his cake.

Basically the boy likes pudding :o

My 7yo does this. The only time he doesn't is when he's ill - it's a useful diagnostic tool. He is a beanpole and very active.

The 4yo does it too and with him it is boredom. He's much harder to deal with.

Oh I hear you!

DSS is 14. My god but that kid can put it away - and has a seemingly endless capacity for junk food.

Not sure how we will survive once my other three boys grow up and we have three teeen boys in the house!

And to answer your question he is asking about meal times from the second breakfast is over.

I hear you!