I posted about this child awhile back when he was right around 1! At that time I thought I was making ground, but hmmm here I am again still struggling with him! The child will not eat anything in which I consider healthy and now his father told me one day picking up that he won't even drink milk for them anymore! UGH I know this is the case because he sits in his little chair and says "juice, juice, juice" over and over again! I treat juice as a treat here and all of my meals are served with milk, I give him his milk and he does drink it even though he is saying "juice" well apparently he won't do that at home! Father tells me "Oh good well at least he is drinking it here" WHAT??? He is a baby, for crying out loud, be the parent!! I didn't say anything about it, just thought well that answers alot of my questions! I hold his milk/cup/liquid until he starts eating and have been doing this since he was around 1 otherwise he slams his cup and doesn't eat anything and this was mostly my concern back when I posted with him, Well, well, well some new issues! LOL He will not eat anything unless it is JUNK and it is driving me CRAZY! The only things I can count on him eating are canned peas (nope not fresh or frozen even), fish sticks, mac n cheese (like the Kraft out of the box kind, but not homemade) and any sort of cracker or treat!! Seriously that is it and I am going crazy because he will simply refuse to eat and I have to give him his milk or he will just not eat anything and will completely go with out! This has been going on for MONTHS, it is so bad that the rest of the kids cheer and celebrate when this boy eats!
I am at my witts end with it, I have talked to the parents SEVERAL times about it, but they don't seem concerned and just blow me off, I am now starting to think that is ALL they feed him!!! So how am I suppose to get anywhere if they don't try!! I don't know I have never dealt with anything this bad, yes I have dealt with picky eaters, but nothing like this!! I am not going to serve him a different meal than all the other kids! I ALWAYS make him a plate and give him each of the food items and I throw it away almost everyday and he will sit and scream the entire time we are eating and simply refuse to eat ANYTHING or even try it!! I don't know I have also resorted to skipping out on his snack and instead saving his lunch and giving that to him at snack time, this hasn't worked yet, he is so stubborn and will go days without eating here!! I don't know what they do when they get home make the kid 3 boxes of Kraft mac n cheese or what because he has to be starving! I don't know! He does eat fruit like a champ, but I am sorry I am not going to feed a child half a watermelon for lunch because he won't eat anything else, honestly I serve fruit here to all the kids like a dessert! I don't know I need advice this is driving me batty!
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