My Child won't eat

[Love2bake]

Anyone watching.

I get the feeling this programme is going to make me

Aitch- and if your child won't eat anything else then you have to give something even if it is chocolate. . When ds1 was at the height of his problems he wouldn't eat outside of our house. So if we went out for the day then he wouldn't eat at all. Which meant in the evening it had to be jam and toast a pack of crisps and a biscuit because otherwise he would have gone to bed too low on sugars and would spend the next 3 days smelling of pear drops and throwing up.

Thank god those days are over.

apparantly the girl on chocolate is as healthy as can be. right thats it! i am throwing out the salad and replacing with wotsits and fingers!

Just let Bobby get on with it.

These parents are trying too hard

i know, it does freak me out when i see people doing all that spoon waving. imagine someone was doing that with a relative-sized spoon in your face, it's like a weapon.
thought the dark-haired lady gave a lot away when she said that she wouldn't settle until she'd seen something go in...
don't really understand why no-one tells them to Back Off.

Gillian Harris is not a fan of BLW, mind...

My cousin has only ever eaten chocolate and chips. She is now 23, healthy, beautiful and slim. Parents were always v sensible and never pushed or pandered. ho hum

sounds awful, jj.

who are these experts that advocate starving children? are they actually qualified in anything?

Whats BLW??

no, habs, she's a fan of 'early' weaning also.

just not arsing about with purees, lovetobake, nothing much to it other than not stressing and giving your child family finger foods from the start.

OK so you let them eat what they want?

So when they are two stone overweight eating Mcdonalds everyday, at what point would you say that her method doesn't work?

They should make the McDonalds girl watch SuperSize Me - that will put her off for life.

jsut had a quick look at this and saw the bottle-boy

i can imagine its horrendous for a child(and their parents)who has a genuine food phobia.i have a phobia of baked beans(i had a tummy bug when i was 5 and was made to eat my dinner at school and the beans came back 5 minutes after eating them),i couldnt imagine ever trying to eat them again in my life,so feeling that way about most foods must be awful

i have no sympathy for those parents who have caused their children to be fussy eaters though

Ah but long gone aitch. (Thanks to his school) He really eats very well these days. But I have every sympathy for someone stuck with the horror of a child who will not eat.

i am glad my ds is not fussy/food phobic, he would probably eat the dog food if he could get hold of it!

it's like a reboot, violentfemme, to remove the anxiety and build confidence, it's not forever.

habs, see here for Gillian quote.

Your ds's teacher sounds amazing, yurt.

So in a glib recap, Bobby has anxious, pressuring parents & Aaron's mother feeds him bottled formula & has to change his diarrhoea nappies 16x a day...

Ime it's not the kids who've got problems with food.

Only the very adult 12yr old Rachel who speaks of being patronised is less clear cut, peer pressure seems to be motivating her desire to change though.

me too, jj, it must be horrific. my cousin married a really fussy eater, meeting an adult with a list of things he wouldn't eat was astonishing, we thought he was a complete twat. in fact, meeting him is just one of the many reasons why i was Very Determined to be breezy about food with my (NT afaik) dd.

what i actually do find comforting about these kids is that (by and large) they look pretty healthy to me.

bethoo-its ok,pet food is fit for human consumption,let him have the dog food and stop depriving him!

oh well done, girl.

Good for her!

why is a 3 and a half year old still in nappies?sorry,the tv is in the other room(i could do with a hole in the wall)