Something that I have been telling my self for a few days now "this too, will pass!"
We love Mason and we love Emma, but being a parent is so challenging with them right now. Mason has decided to take a stand and eat about 6 things I can list: PB&J, chicken nuggets, french fries, cold cereal, some veggies, and grapes! Dinner is the most eventful meal in our house, and it usually goes something like this...
Mom makes a good nutritious meal, kids look at it and push it away, Husband says "good meal honey". At the end of the meal, the table is cleared (kids plates still have most if not all the food still on it) as Mason walks to the pantry and starts banging on the door trying to see if anyone will tend to his need to eat!
I use to pride myself in not having pickey eaters, don't do that, it will come back to haunt you later.
So from this comes the circle...no dinner, less sleep (waking early to eat Breakfast) fussy due to tiredness, so on and so on....
Any one have some wonderful advise on this. At some point we have to get the little ones to at eat enough to be full and sleep long enough to wake up fully rested! I have some ideas, so stay tuned to see the plan unfold!
A Little Scare
1 week ago
3 comments:
So Sorry! No advise here. Only sympathy. I hate it when the less sleep/fussy days/bad eating/even less sleep downward spirals hit.
Stick to your guns!
Oh man! At least you give them the opportunity for good meals - our schedule is so wacky that it's often, "oh - time for Kiddo to have something to eat...will it be nuggets or mac'n'cheese?" One of my friends whose kids are older (youngest is around 11) says not to stress about it - just feed them what they'll eat, if it's got some modicum of nutritional value - they'll outgrow it and develop better tastes as they're exposed to more, later :-). Here's hoping it passes soon, though!!! :-)
If you figure it out, let me know. Aidan is in the same phase. The only thing I've tried that's helped a little is packing up his uneaten dinner and giving it to him for breakfast the next day when he's so hungry, he's more willing to eat. It's gotten him willing to try more food, but it hasn't completely solved the problem. He pretty much still wants to eat bananas, cheese, yogurt, and cheerios, but he's a little more willing to have some bites of our family dinner.
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