I know I'm going to stir the pot a bit with this post, but we got to the end of our tether one night.
This was one night when the little man was 3. We had offered dinner at 5pm and it wasn't being eaten. It was his favourite meal so we knew he was just being stubborn. He had just gotten into his head that he wanted dessert straight away.
We gave him a bath and re offered it. It got to 7pm and it still wasn't eaten, we had re-heated it and offered again. So we became stubborn back. Dinner went into the fridge nothing else was offered except for a drink of water. He went to bed with out eating despite him telling us he was hungry... we told him "if your hungry you will eat what you were given'... he still refused his dinner. At breakfast the next morning out came dinner (we gave him left overs not the re-heated stuff) and offered it again. Needless to say it was eaten and more was asked for because he was so hungry. We knew if we offered something else we would be giving into the tantrum.
Did we do the right thing? we still feel bad about it. Granted he hasn't pulled that one again so I don't know the jury is still out.
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