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Originally Posted by Noah930
Or, be glad he doesn't go to a school where they've banned peanut food products because someone else in the school has an allergy to them.
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Our Temple is like that for the summer day camp he attends. Not as bad as what you're referring to but we substitute soy nut butter which he actually likes more (as do I) so there is no issue.
Sometimes he asks for a soy and peanut butter sandwich.
We have gone the route of trying to force him to eat what we do and frankly this boy is willing to fight it much more than we are. I'm not a roll over parent but seriously - the fight was a CONSTANT, knock down drag out every night. We finally just gave up. If he doesn't eat - he doesn't eat and there isn't anything I can do about it (except give him candy right? He'll eat that...). Now that was the past - we have had him and us in some counseling and that has been productive. We're dealing with a some impulse control and ADHD issues. I'm fine with him snorting peanut butter up his nose, I'm not fine with him asking for food and then not eating it.
These days, and there are previous threads on this - we have lightened up at dinner time and so has he. He eats more, I know what he likes and doesn't and I do tailor things a bit but I don't go far out of my way. I meet him part way and he's meeting me part way.
Hopefully he will grow out of it but I'm a bit food obsessive myself, I just have more range. =-)
It's funny how children can come from the same physical place (my house, specifically) yet be so entirely different. My wife has friends who complain about their parents and their childhood. This 6 year old is very challenging and sometimes insufferable. These two situations makes my wife now ask her friends who complain about their parents and childhood ask those friends 'um, maybe you were a craptastic child eh?'
HA!