Toys and calculators
Sunday, 16 March 2008 17:23
Sam generally has very low interest in eating or feeding himself. So at the family get together in Melbourne, all the little cousins sat at the table and ate...except Sam.
We then gave Sam a calculator to play with, after which he was open to eating. Saying "...Sam loves calculators...." in front of the other parents..... well, it may be true, but it doesn't go down well ..... (Hugo wouldn't eat till he was allowed to wear his batman cape, and his parents gave him that. It's probably the same thing, but bribing Sam with a calculator doesn't get the same smiles).
So no more calculators for dinner. I've been trying other techniques... no toys (calculators, maths books, computers) till after you eat your dinner, sit at the table for hours till you eat your dinner, go to bed without dinner, funny shapes, logical explanations of why we eat ... but nothing seems to work (yet).
Then I thought more about how Sam sees the world. I made him mince and shaped that into a large 8, put mash in the top circle of the 8, and filled the bottom circle with veggies. Sam looooved his 8! He kept saying "mummy made you an 8! Mummy made you an 8!" (he still mixes up his pronouns) and he was so happy. He ate at least half the meal by himself!
Having fussy toddlers is probably something many parents have to manage. ... 15 year old boys don't go on a date and have their mother's there feeding them! So I know his eating will improve some time.... I'd just like it to be sooner.....
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