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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a picky eater what do you do? One of my three is horribly picky. I have tried no thank you bites, just forcing her to eat our food, giving one thing she would like and it isn’t working. My mom says just force her to eat our food and she will if she is hungry enough. She won’t. She would rather starve.

Do you just keep at it and hope kid finally eats the food you serve? Or do you give in to picky eating?  I am afraid she will go weeks just eating breakfast at this rate (the one thing she will eat is pancakes and bacon). Is it horrible for a 8 year old to only eat one meal a day? [/quote]

I am the Satter poster, and I realize I have been having a whole other conversation and I never answered the OP!

I'll start by asking a few questions.

How old is your kid?

Has their weight gain been steady?

Are there any special needs?

Do you literally mean that they only eat pancakes and bacon and no other foods? Or do they eat pancakes and bacon consistently and some other foods occasionally? Or they some other foods consistently but you consider them junk and so you didn't include them?  Do they drink anything with calories like milk or juice?

What is your kid's schedule as far as eating and being out of the house -- e.g. do they eat lunch that you send to school?  Or lunch that daycare provides?  Do they eat an afternoon snack at aftercare or do they come home and have a snack?  Or are they a kid with a SAHP or a nanny who eats almost all their meals in your house?

The other thing I'd ask is whether you feel like you could commit to spending months working in a model that involves building trust, or does that idea not resonate with you.  Because I could tell you how to address this in a Satter model, but if you know up front that your tolerance is for 2 or 3 weeks before you see improvement, or that trust isn't something you think will come, then you probably should look for another model, and should probably learn about it from someone who follows that model. [/quote]

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