Peggy Eicher MD Eating Disorder Expert DrMDK.com

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Interviewer: Violent problem. Babies over a year and they are very fussy or even a two or three year old. How do you control a very fussy eater kids really have the size, probably normal height and under weight and then it really it worried about kid not growing correctly great tips that you can give to a fussy eater, were ultimately normal chop at very fussy – just do not want to eat, more interested in running around playing. What would you suggest to help the kid? Interviewee: Well, typically we think of them as having something is holding them back from running that a manpower is that they should for a adequate growth. They were assuming that they happened trailing off— Interviewer: And we should be just following kids it seems to be that somehow not the same concern is the kid is dropping off is that true? Interviewee: Exactly right. And you have said – Interviewer: Some other conditions but you got a kid that a very fussy and much concerned really like, have you seen a boy taller than average? What do you do to kids with already encouraged a little bit better jobs here? Interviewee: Firstly, we asked about their schooling because typically. –It is always the planning that helps you up and that a very difficult age because they want to independent but they may not have all the skills they need to be so independent. They get easily frustrated. They do not want to sit and they fear, how many minutes are you working well like you are full of poop. Sitting is even harder for you. So we always ask about how they are schooling, about how their mouth works. We look at how their self-feedings are and then we try to put a little bit of structure in place because typically, those kids have done to play where they want to do it but they may not be doing it. Interviewer: That is a big danger like the food. Have we watched this. I am happy because you are eating, they could – later on some of these kids get very heavy because they have been trained that way, is that true? Interviewee: We have not found that to be the case at all. You know the way the meal time structure if there is re-enforcement for eating but it is – Interviewer: We are talking about the motives using the food as a reward. You eat and you can get a toy, blah, blah, blah. Only at a legal right to adolescence and the stress is a memory and they become over eaters. Interviewee: Well that has not happened for the children who actually have problems with their planning because— Interviewer: They turn up to be a normal kid. Interviewee: Okay. Interviewer: Then be careful if the food is the reward. Interviewee: Well yes. We do not want to use. We want the child’s ability to perform their request to be the child’s rapport so that they are actually gaining increase motivation from the feeling that you are doing it.