2.5-year-old DCG comes with breakfast that she never really eats. Most times it's a yogurt, an apple sauce, and a pouch of oatmeal for me to make or a small container of cereal. Always 3 things. She never eats any of it. I'm always opening the yogurt and the apple sauce, she only ever takes 2 bites and says she's done.
So now I've just been giving her one item and not giving her another item until/unless she finishes the first.
Anyway, this morning she came with a yogurt and a container with a medium sized muffin with a crapload of icing on it. I thought it was a cupcake a first...who puts icing on a muffin? So I immediately took the food out of her bag like I always do. She asked for her breakfast. So I gave her the yogurt without mentioning the muffin. She looked at the yogurt and refused it, and said she wanted her muffin. I told her nope, not until she eats her yogurt. Also, I didn't tell her or show her that she had a muffin, which meant that her parents showed it to her and told her she was taking one and having it for breakfast. When she asked to eat her breakfast, she was really asking to just eat the muffin.
By "eat the muffin", I know all she was going to do was lick the icing off.
Honestly, the child has the stubbornness in her that she would not touch that yogurt and refuse all food until she'd get that muffin. She's here with me now telling me she's hungry but she won't eat the yogurt. She never eats her breakfast...maybe the parents are using the muffin as a means to get her to eat something knowing that she doesn't eat but honestly, that just peeves me off.
Sorry, not really looking for advice, more of a vent. But here's a question: when your parents send food for their kids, is it healthy? If it's not do you serve it anyway? And if not, what do you tell the parents when they pick up and see the food hasn''t been touched?
So now I've just been giving her one item and not giving her another item until/unless she finishes the first.
Anyway, this morning she came with a yogurt and a container with a medium sized muffin with a crapload of icing on it. I thought it was a cupcake a first...who puts icing on a muffin? So I immediately took the food out of her bag like I always do. She asked for her breakfast. So I gave her the yogurt without mentioning the muffin. She looked at the yogurt and refused it, and said she wanted her muffin. I told her nope, not until she eats her yogurt. Also, I didn't tell her or show her that she had a muffin, which meant that her parents showed it to her and told her she was taking one and having it for breakfast. When she asked to eat her breakfast, she was really asking to just eat the muffin.
By "eat the muffin", I know all she was going to do was lick the icing off.
Honestly, the child has the stubbornness in her that she would not touch that yogurt and refuse all food until she'd get that muffin. She's here with me now telling me she's hungry but she won't eat the yogurt. She never eats her breakfast...maybe the parents are using the muffin as a means to get her to eat something knowing that she doesn't eat but honestly, that just peeves me off.
Sorry, not really looking for advice, more of a vent. But here's a question: when your parents send food for their kids, is it healthy? If it's not do you serve it anyway? And if not, what do you tell the parents when they pick up and see the food hasn''t been touched?
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