Does my 6 year old eat too much?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a question for your child’s doctor, who can assess your child’s BMI. Tall kids, muscular kids, and active kids need more calories than their short, sedentary counterparts. My kid ate like a toddler until puberty and was always the smallest in the class. Then started eating man portions at age 13.

As for the suggestion to pump your child full of protein to satiate them — no. Kids don’t actually need that much protein. And the obsession with blunting hunger with high protein diets in adults should not be transferred to children.

You don’t need a doctor to assess BMI. Doesn’t OP have access to a scale, a tape measure, and the internet?

I put OP’s kid’s measurements into a calculator, using 6.5 for his age. His BMI is 55th percentile which is a very good place to be. Clearly he’s got an appropriate appetite for his body and OP is doing a good job feeding him an appropriate variety.

I think that strategies like low carb, fixating on protein, or having a kid not eat snack while other kids are having snack a school, are problematic for any child but for a kid like this they are particularly bizarre.

Agree there's no need to change this kid's diet, and his snack is fine, but eggs and yogurt for breakfast is not bizarre. Many kids eat that for breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is an example of what he eats a day:

Breakfast - two hashbrowns and a bowl of Greek yogurt with granola

Snack - fruit and some pretzels or goldfish

Lunch - school lunch (changes daily)

Snack - banana with peanut butter or cheese stick and pretzels

Dinner - chicken, potatoes and broccoli plus some fruit

Snack before bedtime - yogurt with granola or fruit or cheese stick or

You are going to drive him.crazy. he is a growing child and needs food. If everyday his dinner is chicken, potatoes and broccoli you definitely need to learn to cook some other choices.