Baz hasn't been eating at school.
It was never an issue before. When we enrolled him in January, and for the summer, his class was from 9am to 12nn, so packing a midmorning snack with finger food like cereal, crackers or pieces of fruit was easy. So was eating it.
But now it's lunch. We started a week and a half ago with the usual rice, meat and vegetables. Not a bite. Then we tried just rice and his favorite vegetables, kangkong. Still not eating. We tried a banana, cheese and cereal a couple of days ago - he didn't even open the lunchbox. So today we had pasta - he loves noodles as long as it's not too saucy - plus I went there at lunchtime with some McDonald's french fries and chicken nuggets (Friday's sharing day, in any event).
He put his lips to the tip of one nugget, but didn't take a bite. Not even a sip of water.
BAAAAAAZZZZZZZ!!!!!
At least I had an interesting lunch with his classmates(twins Mia and Isabel, Matteo, Milena, Anton and Sebastian - yes, another Sebastian), one of whom knows the capital of Finland.
I think it's a warm up issue, an opinion I shared with Teachers Gabby and Lisa afterwards. The consensus: just keep trying until he's familiar with the environment.
3 comments:
Doesn't the parenting gem "It's up to you to decide what and when he eats; it's up to your child to decide how much" work any more with Baz?
Maybe you need to pretend like you don't care. Toddlers are famous for making food a control issue because it's one of the few things in their control--maybe that's true for older kids too?
Lots of luck!!
Was the pasta prepared with red sauce? Baz won't eat pasta with red sauce. (Maybe that's why he asked me this evening 'What color is the pasta sauce?' and when I said 'white?' he said, 'No, it's red.')
Yeah, Vicks, that's a good point. Malou's pediatrician aunt said it also: don't pay him any mind. Hard to do for the short term because naturally we don't want to see Baz hungry, but in the long term it may be better so that he won't have any more 'eating out' issues.
Yes, Genni, we know about the red sauce on the pasta. His pasta was olive oil and cheese, with little bits of bacon that he likes.
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