Conference moira::parenting

    Lisa, what about on days that you are home? Will she eat later
    than on a weekday? Perhaps she's uninterested in early breakfast?
    
    Monica

    
    Maybe she's just not hungry??? My daughter is the exact opposite.
    She chows breakfast at home and will eat breakfast again at the
    babysitter's. She eats an okay lunch and then sometimes will
    barely touch supper. Since she doesn't eat much supper sometimes
    I can understand why she's starved in the morning. Maybe cause your
    daughter eats such a good supper, she's not that hungry when she
    wakes up.
    
    Patty

    Natasha will not eat a single bite until she's been up around 3 hours
    (Mom's the same way).  On weekends she eats breakfast around 10:30,
    lunch around 3:00 and dinner around 7:00.  She never really eats much
    at daycare......to much going on I think, but she always eats a great
    dinner.

    
    Rebecca won't eat breakfast unless she has been up and playing for 30
    mins or more. This means that most work days she refuses to eat her
    cereal before we leave the house. She's had quite a bit of milk on
    waking and gets cows milk and a plain biscuit at 9am at creche so I
    don't worry about her going hungry all morning.
    
    At week-ends she eats a huge bowl of cereal and sometimes has toast as
    well once she has been up and playing for an hour or so.
    
    Try getting you child to be more active before breakfast if you are
    worried about them going without.
    
              Celia
    

    re .0
    You see,you are not alone...
    Yahli eats breakfast at the daycare center,but she hardly ever does at
    home (not that I haven't offered...she jjust goes "nooooooooo" with a
    whole body shake...).She will only zip some milk,and even that only in
    the car on the way to the center.And mind you-she does NOT look starved
    or underweight...
    And if your kid eats "right" (healthy food and not junk) at the daycar-
    than it's fine.
    Rivka (who also can't eat anything in the morning and does NOT look
    starved..)
    

    I have found with Nicky that he has to be running around for about an
    hour before he wants to eat. So he ends up eating breakfast around
    8:30 at home on the weekends and at daycare. He recently turned 1 yr,
    has REALY started running around, and it seems like that was the time
    his eating in the morning hours have changed.
    
    Sherry 

    Well, I guess that I'm not alone.  Thanks for the replies. 
    
    Lisa Cozzens

Not all kids "naturally" adapt to our culture's eating norms of
8, noon, and 6.  Certainly our daughter (now 6) would prefer to
eat at 10, 4, and 8, which is what tends to happen on the weekends.
During the week, she has learned that she needs to eat something before
leaving for school in the morning, which gets her to the mid-morning
snack at school, and then she's fine.

    	There are some days that Spencer will not eat (not Griffin, he is
    finally learning what food is and he wants it all of the time!).

    	I figure that if Spencer does not eat it is because he is not
    hungry. After offering him a variety of food (After all he is at the
    fickle stage) if he does not eat, we let him go.

    	He knows that when he is hungry he can *always* go to the fridge
    where he can get apple juice, an apple, or a cheese stick.

    	Grazing is a very popular method of eating in our house for us all.

    				Wendy
        

    Was so glad to see this note in the notes file. My son just stopped
    eating breakfast this week. It drives me crazy. Everything ends up on
    the floor.
    
    It's nice to know that this is happening to others.
    
    

    This note is quite timely. Neel (17 months) is a good eater. He eats
    breakfast well. But at dinner time he has gotten picky. He used to eat
    anything I gave him but now he has gotten picky. I attribute it to the
    fact that he is trying to decide for himself what he wants to eat and
    maybe what I make is not what he wants and he cannot tell me what he
    wants. So I let him choose what he wants from what I make and give him
    things that he likes like pumpkin bread or such. He manages to eat well
    but not exactly what I had in mind. Avanti (4yrs 5 months) did the same
    things at that age.
    
    They are growing up, sniff!
    
    Shaila

    Just found this note, and wanted to relate that we too went through
    this "phase".  I remember calling the pedi and telling her that I had
    concerns about his lack of interest in breakfast.
    
    Her suggestion was to use Carnation Instant Breakfast, the kind WITH
    the sugar NOT the artifical sweetner.  She said if I could get even two
    of them into him each day, then all his nutritional needs would be met.
    
    The other idea was that the daycare center he was attending had a
    "breakfast club", and if we sent the main parts of the breakfast, and a
    microwave was available to the parents, they provided OJ, Applejuice
    and milk.  The children ate at a small table, sometimes parents would
    be sitting there with their kids, and it was a small initimate time
    for all.
    
    He is now 7, our school system has a before school care program, and
    breakfast is available for .75, usually juice, milk and a hot item like
    muffin, "flapstix", french toast stix, breakfast pizza.  I now send
    something small like a granola bar, and make sure he has at least a 6oz
    glass of milk before leaving the house, and give him money for
    breakfast if he wants.  It isn't served until 15 or 20 minutes before
    the first school bell, so at least I know he has something in his
    stomach until the mid morning snack time, which I send from home too.
    
    He's tall, but really on the lean side, so I have no problem if some
    days he wants to eat two breakfasts.
    
    Lyn