Dinner.

My son has been stressing me out when it comes to dinner. He eats breakfast really well lunch his good too mostly he’s at daycare for lunch and afternoon snack but dinner no matter what I make he just doesn’t eat it. I try cooking early and skipping snack when we gets home so he’s hungry. I try giving him choices, I try having him help my cook. Some nights it’s hit or miss the last 5 nights it’s been huge misses. I even went a day with no snack. Just his meals still don’t eat. I try all of us eating at table together, I change when I eat dinner since I use to eat after bed time. I tried sharing food with him nothing seem to be working. He always been on the skinny and I just don’t want him to far behind in percentile again.

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I think it’s normal, my son is very similar, always on the go and has been on the smaller/slimmer side. Dinners are the tougher meal for us too. I try to look at it as long as he’s getting 1-2 good meals and snacks throughout the day he’s probably fine. I try to add extra fats like avocado, coconut milk, oil/butter to his food to make sure he’s getting calories and trust that he’ll eat if he’s hungry.

I was told we feed them breakfast lunch and dinner plus snacks, not because they will eat, but it gives them a chance to eat. My son grazes more than anything and usually one to two good meals a day.

He could be a grazer instead of big meals he prefers snacks. See if he’ll eat some “meal foods” for snacks like cut up pieces of chicken or turkey and just have them on a plate so he’s getting in protein and other items to get other nutrients in. My daughter is similar so I do cook dinner but usually earlier and I cut it up and let her graze on it over the course of an hour or so

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