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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to ask him WHY he does this. Does he do this to others as well? Watch his own food intake? He needs to retrain his brain and stop doing it, but it's going to take repeated pushback from both you and your daughter. You can both talk to him and declare that his input on food is NOT welcome until he can understand your daughter mustn't stunt her growth. When she gets her period, she'll also need plenty of iron-rich foods.

My husband has the opposite problem. He feeds DD more food than she can possibly eat. This is because we have an older child who for years was on a diet to gain weight, and DH hasn't adjusted to a normal child. I need to remind him all the time.

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I was just going to say this! Instead of telling him, ask him. Hopefully he can figure out what is leading to his distorted thinking. I also recommend doing a zoom appt together with your daughter's ped. My ex is like this and it's really hard. Pre covid our kid was 3% for weight and 20% for height. Ex wouldn't let her snack at home and would give her a very low calorie snack and lunch to take to school. It helped a bit when the ped feeding her a croissant every day (kid doesn't like cheese or nuts or other regular calorie dense suggestions).[/quote]

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