Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

Fussy eating anxious 4 yr old

1 reply

Stephiewoo · 11/01/2018 18:04

Fussy eating anxious 4 yr old alert.
I've got two older children so it should come easy to me.
DD won't eat at school at the moment as she finds the hall too noisy ( has hyper sensitive hearing), a pain in the bum eating at home or at her fathers, Rigid in her routines and ways, for example, was sick at daddy's in the bath, now has a breakdown about baths, cannot cope with the wind, having nosebleeds.
She's a clever little one too, very intelligent and has amazing speech and emotional understanding.
I'm also a family support worker and have tried all my own tricks.
Anyone with anything new to offer a stressed out mum?
Thanks in advance 😊

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
FurryGiraffe · 12/01/2018 08:47

I have no advice but much sympathy. She sounds very like my DS1 who is also 4. Very anxious about things. Eats very little at school- due to large noisy dining hall. Pretty fussy at home with food, and hugely resistant to trying new things, though we've started letting him dish up his own dinner from serving dishes and that's definitely helping (and takes the stress out of meals). He likes routine too. School drop off is very tough (was fine to begin with but now he cries) and he's very afraid of getting things wrong/not being able to do things. Anything new/unfamiliar is a nightmare. I dread it parties because he desperately wants to go but gets so anxious beforehand.

On the plus side he's bright, articulate and very emotionally intelligent. He's the most amazing caring loving big brother to DS2. But he's so anxious. It's very tough to see them struggle so much.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.