My DS is nearly 20 months, is just beginning to talk, and is very willful, always has been.
I'm beginning to feel a bit crap about one issue. He eats well, a nice varied diet, gets a proper lunch at nursery two days a week and also at my Mum's. But we have a problem with Hipp Organic Vanilla and Cocoa dessert. (Basically chocolate blancmange...!) I used to give it to him as the occasional treat. He won't eat any jars (that's fine - he used to get jarred dessert or fruit puree but not main meals). But the Hipp organic chocolate thing has become an obsession.
Of late, he's demonstrating that he's very keen on it. Very keen indeed. He tried to persuade me to give it to him for breakfast one morning (he didn't get it!) and he normally wants it most times of the day. I don't give it to him between meals or anything like that, but it's becoming clear that he won't eat any dessert at supper time other than this. He won't eat yoghurt or fruit now, and if I try to give him something other than his favourite 'chocolate' pudding, he has a tantrum.
All well and good, but what should I do? Go cold turkey on it and see how long until he forgets? Let him have his tantrum but not the pudding? I want to make sure he eats, but I don't want him to become chocolate mad or obsessed by it or develop any food-related problems.