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My 4 year old is making himself throw up
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<blockquote data-quote="Josie" data-source="post: 473425" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>We have food issues in our house, too. My daughter is now almost 16 and she is still very limited in what she will eat. I tried everything from ignoring what she ate and having only healthy options around, to saying she had to try everything to get dessert, to bribing her to try different things. She wanted the dessert but she just could not make herself eat the food she supposedly didn't like (that she hadn't even tried).</p><p></p><p>She is not my daughter with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but I think her food issues are OCDish. If she were younger, I would probably make her go to therapy to get over it. She and her dad both think this is a ridiculous idea, so I'm not going to make it happen. In a few years, she will be on her own anyway and I have used up my battles on more important issues.</p><p></p><p>I would let him take his own lunch to school and work on the eating issues away from school if you are going to. I don't think it is as simple as a deliberate choice to not eat what they serve so I wouldn't punish him. When I talked to him, I would be trying to figure out what he didn't like about it and try to figure out how to solve the problem from his perspective. </p><p></p><p>Maybe the way he acts in your kitchen is a clue to the problem. Is he a germaphobe concerned with contamination, or not like a particular ingredient, etc.? Does he not want his food that he likes to touch a food that he doesn't? Those kinds of issues would be OCDish, but I'm sure there could be other types of issues, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josie, post: 473425, member: 1792"] We have food issues in our house, too. My daughter is now almost 16 and she is still very limited in what she will eat. I tried everything from ignoring what she ate and having only healthy options around, to saying she had to try everything to get dessert, to bribing her to try different things. She wanted the dessert but she just could not make herself eat the food she supposedly didn't like (that she hadn't even tried). She is not my daughter with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but I think her food issues are OCDish. If she were younger, I would probably make her go to therapy to get over it. She and her dad both think this is a ridiculous idea, so I'm not going to make it happen. In a few years, she will be on her own anyway and I have used up my battles on more important issues. I would let him take his own lunch to school and work on the eating issues away from school if you are going to. I don't think it is as simple as a deliberate choice to not eat what they serve so I wouldn't punish him. When I talked to him, I would be trying to figure out what he didn't like about it and try to figure out how to solve the problem from his perspective. Maybe the way he acts in your kitchen is a clue to the problem. Is he a germaphobe concerned with contamination, or not like a particular ingredient, etc.? Does he not want his food that he likes to touch a food that he doesn't? Those kinds of issues would be OCDish, but I'm sure there could be other types of issues, too. [/QUOTE]
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