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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the Ellyn Satter advice. My 5 year old kid is the same, OP. She will ignore her body and her hunger and thirst as long as she can go. Then she will have multiple tantrums over it and still we have to suggest to her that it’s because she’s hungry and she will scream, I’m not hungry. Hysterics ensue. When we can get food into her, get her to use the bathroom, and then drink water she turns into a different kid. We talk when she’s calm about why that happened and remind her to pay attention to her body. Yet it happens with regularity. So we regularly bother and bribe her to eat to avoid an hour of hysteria that will follow if we don’t and prevent us from literally getting to school and to bed and anywhere else we ever need to go. I feel like a hostage with this behavior but we have routines we have to follow.[/quote]

I think I posted this before in a similar thread but I also have a kid who will melt down when hangry. We allow fruit and vegetables any time and if the kid is truly hungry they will eat a piece of fruit and that is often enough to head off the tantrum. We also allow a glass of milk before bed if they are hungry. I think the problem is when snacks are junk food like white crackers so obviously kids want to fill up on that instead of their meals. [/quote]

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