Up until a few months ago, I had been blessed with a daughter that would pretty much eat anything.
But then something changed. Every morning she would procrastinate to the point to where she didn’t really get anything to eat before school. I had it in my head that she HAD to eat breakfast (I still hold this belief by the way!). It’s the most important meal of the day not only for regular brain purposes, but it jump starts your whole body. Well, she just wouldn’t eat, which in turn would make me just mad every morning. It’s never good to start out your day by being mad every single day! I was on the verge of insanity every morning, so where is the line? Where is the line between getting her to eat and insanity?
My husband decided to change her morning routine to include the following:
-She wakes up at 6:30 and when she’s done getting ready, she’s done. If that only leaves 5 minutes to eat, then she only has 5 minutes to eat.
-If she doesn’t eat her breakfast, she doesn’t get a snack for school or desert at night.
-If she doesn’t eat all her lunch, she doesn’t get desert either.
What this is supposed to do is leave how much she eats up to her. Then I won’t have to get mad in the mornings.
What actually has happened has been the following: She does only leave around 10 minutes to eat, she has yet to eat all of her breakfast (or even half for that matter). She hasn’t finished her lunch, which is half a peanut butter sandwich and raisins. Usually she eats dinner, but it takes a long time.
Why am I still on the edge of insanity? She went from eating 3 good meals a day, plus snacks and desert, to pretty much nothing.
Yesterday she ate:
1/4 cup of honey nut cheerios
1/2 a peanut butter sandwich
kids milk
about 1/2 cup rice and chicken casserole
1/2 cup milk
Total calories = about 500
Is this acceptable? Not to me. But where’s the line between getting her to eat and just going straight crazy? We’ve been on this new plan for over a week now and she’s not getting better. Ugh, sometimes I’d rather pick insanity.
