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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three of my kids love spice and are great eaters. One is a terrible eater. We don't make a fuss. This is dinner, eat it or don't. No complaining of whining at the table about food - you can do that in your room. We don't talk about his eating at all. For a full year he didn't eat dinner at all - not once. [b]Obviously this was more about control for him than food as there are foods he likes but he wouldn't eat them at dinner.[/b] Like your son he ate massive breakfasts as he was starving by morning. He ate well at lunch too (he gets the same thing pretty much every day as I do a little more individualizing for lunches) so I didn't care about dinner. He was getting enough nutrition.

He finally started eating a few things he likes at dinner. Now it is hit and miss. Some days he eats great, some days he eats one plain thing and some days he still won't touch dinner. He knows he is not to draw attention to himself for what he eats or doesn't eat. We completely ignore his food intake at the dinner table and talk about the day, life, world events etc...

If we are at someone elses home he knows he has to eat 'something' and not fuss about it.

He is healthy and happy - someday he will eat dinner![/quote]

This is the winner! Yes, it's not about food, it's about CONTROL. Don't make him eat dinner, but he does need to behave at the dinner table. If he acts up, then he's done and dinner's over. If he goes to bed hungry sometimes he'll survive and one of these days he'll surprise you at dinner.[/quote]

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