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From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Kid won't eat
Message-ID: <774@decuac.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 19:46:15 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 19:46:15 1986
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Summary: How do I get a 4 yr old to eat real food?

My 4 year old son won't eat.  Okay. "So, what else is new?" you say.
Well, I am really looking for advice anyway.  I know lots of kids don't
eat.  I am asking what to do in the mean time. (Before he starts to eat or
gets married.)

He (and his sister -- 2) used to eat better.  He's recently cut out fruits.
No vegetables.  Now all he eats are eggs, bread, peanut butter, cheese,
hot dogs, and sometimes ham or bologna.  Now before I get letters saying
how nutritious peanut butter is, etc. let me just say I know.  What I want
to know is, how do you handle it?  Do we just give him what he wants?
("Hey!  I'm not running a diner, ya' know!") Or do we just feed him what
we eat and if he wants to go hungry he can. (No kid ever starved himself
to death with food on the table.) What do we do?

Please write -- don't post! -- and I promise I will save all replies and
send them all to the net.  All except those that start "Well, I don't have
kids, but it seems to me that they are just little adults and if you
reasoned with them and explained how things are...." (Please don't write
if you think kids are little adults.  My parents taught me not to
correspond with anyone from another planet.)

Fred Avolio
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