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We’re the same at the moment!🥲 We tried limiting snacks but that didn’t help much, I’m hoping it’s just a phase😅 My daughter will ask for food if she’s hungry though, or if she hasn’t eaten her food and I have mine after she’ll then have mine with me😂🤦🏼♀️
Mine too, just snacks
This happens to us some days.. when speaking to the Health Adviser, as long as they are eating something (even if it's 'snacking' and not set meal times), that's all that matters. My daughter has safe foods that she will definitely eat during meal times, so we always have this available on her plate with whatever else we had planned for that meal. When it comes to puddings, the HA also said to have the pudding available with the main meal at the same time, so it's seen as less desired.
From 18 months to about 4 years children do not want to eat a lot- they don’t need as many calories they just need lots of fruits and vegetables and they will pick at other foods. Don’t expect toddlers to sit at a table or go out to a restaurant because they’re just not wired to! They want to eat little and often.
My toddler is a snacker, won’t eat food from a meal but give him bits of food here and there and he’ll eat. Also, he doesn’t stay still AT ALL. So sitting doesn’t work cos he just climbs over the table and starts messing around on chairs and falling off so I let him eat standing up
Ours started refusing highchair/booster at table so we got him a little table which he loves but also means he runs off every few mins 🫠
We limit snack near meal time then you offer the dinner if he doesn’t want it let him get down, if he asks for food you offer the dinner again. He won’t starve from skipping a few meals just have to hold your boundaries, it’s a power struggle at this age usually. Good luck x