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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She also eats the icing off of a cupcake and then asks for another. But if given a plate with eggs, fruit, and pancake, she will only eat the pancake and ask for more. If given fruit and a veggie she will only eat the fruit...[/quote]

Ok.  Reading this, I second a PPs idea that you read WillPower.  Very good book.  The summary is,

1) we humans have very little willpower and it's like a muscle in that it gets depleted.

2) Successful people set up their lives so they do not need willpower to be successful.  e.g. The alcoholic, in Alcoholics Anonymous, changes his route home so he does not drive by the bar he used to frequent.  Or a sugar addict does not have sugar in the house.  An exercise avoider has a friend who comes over every Saturday morning to do their Saturday walk.

Now on to the dinner plate.  Talk about a set up to fail.  Your kid is very normal in this regard, and IMO this is a parenting fail, not a kid fail.  You put the hungry kid at the table.  "Pancake is coming!" you say as you put the eggs in front of her...as she waits, she noodles around with the eggs.

Or you put the kid at the table where the carrots and ranch dressing already are, as they wait for the grapes to be washed.  Take a long time to wash those grapes, mom![/quote]

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