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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks PP. are you a teacher?[/quote]

I am a paraprofessional.  I spent all day everyday with this kid, and I and others did whatever we could to get him to eat, but ultimately he would not.  A few bites here and there, just to please us, but basically he could not tolerate eating at school, mostly medication related.  So in the end we had to accept that he would do his eating at home.  And like I said, he was fine healthwise.  Actually, more than fine.[/quote]

Op, a para professional in public schools gets a weeks worth of "training."

Please see a professional and consider an anti anxiety medication.  My kid has gone through this and it only got worse with time.  You may need to have it incorporated into an IEP at some point if it gets worse.[/quote]

I'm the teacher PP above.

First of all, I'll point out that paraprofessionals often have a lot of wisdom from experience.  No, they don't have a lot of formal training, but OP posted on a parenting board, and paraprofessionals have more training than parents do.  Your snobbery towards them in ridiculous.

Not eating at the start of the first year of full time school is not uncommon.  Yes, if it persists it can be a sign of anxiety, but it sounds like OP's kid hasn't even started school yet.  There are plenty of things OP can do to encourage eating.  If this persist past a few months, if behavior shows that he's miserable from hunger, or if he's also showing other signs of problematic anxiety, then involving outside professionals makes sense, but now is too early.[/quote]

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