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[quote=Anonymous]She likes almost everything, so I’m not sure there’s a food preference issue going on.

For the past 6 months or so (so, pre-Covid) she started refusing to eat if she is mad at me or DH. So, refuse to come to the meal, or, if we push her,  sit at the table and sulk and not eat.  She’d do that a little bit when she was younger, but if we put the food in front of her, she used to eat it. Now she won’t. Seems like a control thing combined with tween moodiness?

Then, around mid-March, she started refusing to eat breakfast several days a week, saying she wasn’t hungry.  I pushed it for about a week and then gave it up. I figured she’s home, so if she’s hungry later, she can eat then. It’s not quite the same as being stuck at school hungry. Some days I’ll make her a hot cocoa or slip her some fruit or almonds or something when she’s logged in for school. Sometimes she eats the snack, sometimes she doesn’t, but she’s skipped breakfast most days for the past month.

Today, she skipped breakfast (per usual) and then refused lunch because she was mad at me for telling her to stop fighting with her older sister.

I wouldn’t mind that much if she was making it up later in the day, but she’s down to a small lunch, small dinner, and no snacks. That’s way less than half of what she used to eat.  I think her major growing is done - she’s close to her estimated adult height - but this doesn’t feel like normal fluctuation in appetite to me. 
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