Anyone else having a hard time with toddler eating ?

Yup here with you

Yes we’ve had this a few weeks now, basically all meals and thing she like apart from cheese and yoghurt are now refused, it’s exhausting but I figure it’s. A phase and hopefully it’ll turn a corner soon 🙏

Yep I had the same problem - call me a bad mum but I put the TV on and I let him eat with ms Rachel or peppa pig or something on, otherwise he won’t eat nearly as much. I let him feed himself, and if he doesn’t eat, I try to feed him, change the channel, give him water or make him something else - one of them works! He eats very healthy and nutritious home cooked meals, so I let myself bear the burden of having an ‘iPad kid’ lol

I've had this on and off for months. Like Parris distracting him with something, I use a toy, helps. He'll play with that and be on autopilot with eating, but if I took it away, he'd refuse to it unless it's bread or fruit 🙄

We have a Tonies and have found that that can help make mealtimes more fun when we put it on during dinner x

Mine lives off two bites of lunch and dinner and some snacks. Breakfast is just for show in our house 🙃 it gets thrown at me We have some days worse than others and some days I dread meals and cry 😂 There’s a couple of things we’ve tried: - changed her high chair - we didn’t even realise she was uncomfortable she never cried just hated sitting in and threw all the food so she could leave 🤦🏽‍♀️ it worked a bit - division of responsibility or something it’s an actual toddler psychology thing look it up. Basically like family style dinner where u put nothing on her plate and our kid picks what she wants to put on her plate and eat but I give her a couple of healthy options at meal time. We even went further and get her to pick at the grocery store too so she feels included and wants to do it herself now! I’ll hold a pack of grapes and strawberries in front of her and get her to pick which she wants and put it in the cart 😂

I also tried this and it’s miraculous: when I’m cooking I always make her a part of it anyway but when I’m done I’ll be like everyone come for a taste test and just take it off the pan and blow on it then feed her it. She loves this and then when it’s on her plate I’ll be like it’s the same thing in the pan u just tasted and show her 😂 when she makes this connection god knows why but she seems to like it more than if I just put it on her plate. Ultimately it’s just a phase and I know it’ll get better and one day she’ll eat without all these tricks and nonsense but for now this is what works 😅 Good luck hope it gets better xx