Comments on: Muffins Are On Today’s “Yum” List

By: thaihoney

thaihoney — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:57:02 +0000

by the way…i took ayden to the doctor last wednesday, and he weighs a whopping 30 lbs. and he’s almost three…so don’t fret…we just have active kids. and with the rise of obesity in america, our little guys are just fine!

By: Yano

Yano — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:08 +0000

Thanks, Amy! I’ll look up that book…

By: Lan

Lan — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:28:52 +0000

You need to keep genetics in mind also.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:52:29 +0000

Take Ben to Super Dawg….

By: thaihoney

thaihoney — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:19:55 +0000

don’t worry honey, i went through the SAME thing! especially since ayden was a preemie, he’s always been in the lower percentage for height/weight gain. as long as he’s always gaining, even if it’s a little bit, he’ll be fine. mykel always tells me that ayden will never want for food, so not to worry. i try not to force him to eat anything or eat too much, but it’s really hard sometimes since he’s a skinny minnie too. he’s also very active, so that’s another thing to keep in mind. =)

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:07:11 +0000

Being a mom of a toddler myself I often had similar worries. A few moms recommended the following book to me, Preventing Childhood Eating Problems: A Practical, Positive Approach to Raising Children Free of Food & Weight Conflicts by Jane R Hirschmann, C.S.W. and Lela Zaphiropoulos, C.S.W. It is an older book but I believe it really touches on how to help your child be comfortable with food and it talks about teaches your child self-demand feeding. Basically this means your child eats when he is hungry and decides what he wants to eat. You honor this and your child grows up not bingeing on special foods because they were not forbidden or ever treated differently the vegetables. It talks about if you did a diary of your child’s eating for 2 weeks in self-demand eating. He would eat a balanced meal over the course of time AND eat the same amount of calories each day. That your child body knows what it needs. I’ve been reading it and applying it to Emma and well us too - and it is working well!

So yes it is normal for toddlers to like one food one day and not the other. It is because their bodies crave what they need. Emma will eat dairy one day, protein the next, grains after that, and so on. We give her choices and let her pick and always ask if she is hungry (even though she is not really sure what that means yet!)

I highly recommend the book. I have heard lots about the cookbook you got as well. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it yet. Mostly because it isn’t teaching my child to grow up with good eating habits, it is just tricking them. Just my opinion though!

By the way, Ben looks healthy and happy in the picture and that should be the most important factor in his growth. Those charts are only guidelines!