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[quote=Anonymous]Dessert is not a reward for eating dinner. If you are serving dessert that night, you can either serve it alongside the dinner food or not, but people eat it if they want to, not because they earned it. Yes, this means the kid might only eat a cookie. Yes, you just put a bit of each thing on her plate. She eats what she wants out of it. Don't put a full cup of milk - just put a little cup - or water. If you take a look at Kids EAt In Color, she shows you how to introduce new foods, how to plate food for a kid, etc.

She eats or not, dinner lasts as long as you determine, and dessert is not a reward. It's food, just like all other food, and treated the same - eat if you want don't eat if you don't want, eat a logical amount of it.

She's 2, so 'she does not let me' take away her food is not true. You are the parent - you announce that dinner is over, and remove the food. You can say things like - oh, you are playing with your food. You must not be hungry anymore, so that tells me you are finished with dinner". Remove plate. She can cry and beg for apple and juice. That's her right, and because you give in, she'll continue. Eventually, if you never give in, she won't. You can say something like, "I hear you that you'd like juice. No juice tonight. Would you like water?" She will cry, and that is ok. Keep moving on.
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