Mums of boys... Who eat all the time!

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My boy is only 1yr but he eats constantly! I'm thinking about changing my blog to cover hungry boy snacks but I need some help please.
If you have a hungry boy (baby to teens) would you read a blog for ideas? what part do you struggle with most?

Are these special foods that can only be eaten with a penis? Otherwise why not just food for hungry children?

Surely he can only eat constantly if you are constantly giving him food?

Well I’m not going to knock you OP as the child I birthed with a penis has a massive appetite conpared to the two vagina owners. The girls are in their teens (17 and 15) and do two hours of sports a day (the youngest is a rower and is tall so needs plenty of calories) but my 12 year old son is as skinny as a rail and has the ability to burn through food. He has always been very tall and was almost 11lb at birth. I am a feminist who acknowledges biology and my friends and I share stories about our boys hovering up food. The average boy has more muscle mass and is just larger than the average girl so it would make logical sense that they eat more.

To answer your questions

1. I'm not very likely to read a blog for ideas, but that's just me. I'm not really into blogs.

2. I struggle most with finding cheap healthy snacks.

Favourites here are hummus with sliced peppers and cucumber.

They also love berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries) etc but they don't go very far and cost a lot.

Baby boys are on average a tiny bit bigger (a very tiny bit) than baby girls, and at 12 months need about 50 (not 500, 50) calories per day more than a same age girl.

Give your manly boy a 🍌 banana, should cover it.

DD weighed more at birth than DS. DD ate more than DS, so I'm not sharing my snack ideas on that basis.
Boy snacks? FFS!

Would I read a boy snack blog? Nope. What would I struggle with? A blog on boy food.

Fuck sake. Stereotyping at its finest. He’s ONE. Is there even a difference in calorie requirements between boys and girls at one?

If your post was about a 16 year old then I wouldn't be so but a 1 year old? Don't be so ridiculous. Take the chance now to try and notice if you're forcing sex stereotypes onto your baby and try to stop yourself, because it's stupid.

I have two very tall very hungry DDs so your blog wouldn't apply to me I suppose.

Surely a one year old shouldn’t be eating constantly. Even a boy one year old.

You see I'm not aiming my blog at all mums or even all mums of boys. My blog is aimed at mums like moveablefeast. She knows what I mean. Sure my boy is only 1 but I have spoken to many mums with the same issue, it only increases as they near teens!

This is still all very useful though.

To answer a few questions... Yes, he eats when I feed him. I only feed him when he's hungry, that's just often! Every 2 hours if near a growth spurt. Personally, I'm not going to only give him 50 more calories and leave him hungry just because that's what stats say. All boys and all babies are not the same, he's very active.

Yes, of course, there are hungry girls but if you were to poll from my experience it would be 80% boys 20% girls. Blogs are all about finding a very specific niche that fits you personally. I have a boy so this is mine.

I appreciate the feedback, no real need for the sarky comments over the boy part but hey, that's the internet for you. The mums I'm aiming get what I mean.

Blogs are all about finding a very specific niche that fits you personally.

Constantly hungry 1 year old boy - yes niche is definitely the right description, good luck with finding an audience for that one.

I have 2 boys and a girl.

I don't count their calories and they eat when they are hungry. However a banana is the average difference in calorie needs between the sexes at preschool age.

Pretty much every parent thinks their mobile baby or toddler is "very active". Hardly anyone thinks they have a moderately active, average toddler.

Your blog does indeed sound incredibly niche - aimed at fans of enforcing gender stereotypes as early and as firmly as possible.

Perhaps you could have a section on how to keep your boy away from the princes dresses/ play kitchen/ dolls at preschool, ways to explain that your boy only likes doll prams because they have wheels, manly boy toys, manly preschool TV programmes (and non stereotyped or "girl" toys and programmes to avoid so boys don't accidentally watch something which might give them girl brain)... Just a few ideas.

Obviously boys shouldn't eat pink fruit - avoid those strawberries, and if he must have apples make sure they're green not that suspicious pinkish red, definitely no pink lady variety, and best avoid granny smith to be safe - still a bit feminine! Load your hungry boy up with some good hungry boy blue fruits, like blueberries... Perhaps a manly hungry boy Yorkie bar if you're introducing chocolate, no girly buttons for a hungry boy...

See to me it's not stereotyping, I'm calling him a boy, he is one! He is a boy who can play with and dress how he likes but he is still a boy. To me, I think it's important to be a boy or a girl. It doesn't change what they can do or how they act but it is what they are and it's political correctness gone nuts to pretend otherwise.

Oh I agree - a child with a penis is a boy. A child with female genitals is a girl. Nope, we shouldn't pretend otherwise.

We also shouldn't pretend that at preschool age the genitals determine what kind of snack they eat!

If he's hungry just give him a bit extra. He doesn't need different food at 1 year old to feed his penis!

Haha! I might avoid feeding his penis. I'm feeding him, it's food and any girl or boy can eat it if they wish, I'm not stopping them. I'm feeding a boy because that's what I have, A boy.

Would I be able to use your ideas for my girls, who are extremely active and don’t stop eating?

SoyDora. Yes, of course, you could.

Just wait till your 1 year old, becomes a teen, I have two DS 17 & 15, can they eat!

Multi packs of crisps, disappear very quickly along with berries that they eat most nights, bunches of grapes, disappear too, so if you want a few get in quick!

DH makes all food from scratch, lasagne, roasts, curries, chilli etc.

If they are home lunch time, it’s toasties, quesadillas etc, that fill them up.

Personally I am fed up with all this PC gender stuff, good luck with your blog OP.

It’s not ‘PC gender’ stuff, as a PP has pointed out, boys as a whole don’t need many more calories than girls at 1 year old. If the OP’s son eats more than that, it’s not because he’s a boy. It’s because of his size, activity levels etc.
My two girls are extremely active and eat far more than boys of a similar age I know. Would I read a blog about ‘hungry boys’? No probably not, because the title would irritate me. So you’re probably cutting out a large potential audience for your blog (I.e mothers of hungry, active children). But if you want to limit your audience then go ahead!

Yoga noticable physical differences (aside from genitals)between boys and girls kuck in at puberty. You must know that.

So teen boys and teen girls have on average different nutritional needs.

One year olds, no. There is no noticeable difference when they're dressed, unless their parents create markers you can't tell a boy from a girl at 12 months.

OP is your baby still taking milk? Breast milk or formula? It does seem genuinely strange to be eating every 2 hours, I've not seen that as a common issue among any babies I know, male or female.

As for your blog unless you have older children as well, your experience as mother to a 1 year old is going to be extremely limited in use to most people seeking snacks for their children.

brookshelly. Yes, he is still having milk. The every 2 hours is in a growth spurt (or just before) and that's not unusual in my experience, not all do but some certainly

I should have added that I have nearly 20 years of nanny experience, so, I've fed many children and seen many appetites.

The blog won't be aimed just at 1 year olds as I have plenty of experience with older too. I will be writing the blog over the coming years and my boy will only be 1 this year.

How do you know he's hungry op? My ds didn't start to tell me he was hungry until about 7. Unless he had seen something he really wanted to eat (in a shop or being eaten by someone else) and then he would declare he was starving . Kids tend to eat as much as you will let them and at one
years old I would suggest it isn't constant hunger, just you allowing him to eat all of the time. Either that or what you are feeding him isn't nutritionally balanced.

delilahbucket
He gets very shouty and upset if he's hungry. He does stop when full or turn food down if not hungry, so, he wouldn't eat if he wasn't hungry. Well, I dare say if I offered yummy sweet food he would! Lol, but I don't. He's slap bag on the 50 percentile so must need what he is getting.

I should have added that I have nearly 20 years of nanny experience, so, I've fed many children and seen many appetites.

And in your 20 years of experience, you're telling me that infant baby boys have a noticeable and significantly higher food intake than infant baby girls, to the point of requiring extra meals and snacks (rather than just 5 more forkfuls of dinner)?

I'm genuinely baffled by this but again - if your intention is to make an extremely niche blog then you've found an extremely niche subject.

It just very much annoys me because DC2 is a baby right now, I take her for playgroups and you have all the girls with giant bows on their bald heads and the boys being called "studs" and "ladies man." They all look and act alike, it's total nonsense imposed on them by adults. "Big strapping lad" and all that bollocks. DC1 is a toddler and the biggest in her class - boys and girls. So I just hate this rubbish. Until teens boys and girls are not much different other than how we socialise them.