2yr olds don't eat sitting down

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Simone, RSS or not, most 2 year olds will not eat sitting down. In fact, most

2-year-olds don't seem to eat at all anyways, or at least just 3-4 types of

food. There is always the exception. I think the hard part for us for our RSS

kids is that we are so worried about their weight that when our RSS kid doesn't

eat or doesn't eat enough, we stress about it. And yet when our non-RSS child

leaves the table without eating, we might just shrug our shoulders and clear

their plate. Ironic. In the MAGIC library, there are two interesting articles

about the dynamics in the RSS family about getting the RSS child to eat.

S.

RSS-Support wrote:

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Hi Simone (again),

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Even with periactin, we have to keep distracted to get him to

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eat. We are always running around the house chasing him with food.

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We have tried getting him to sit at the table to eat. Big time bad

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idea !!

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Ken M

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> > Hi Simone,

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> > This is just our experience - not medical knowledge.  Tyler has

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> been

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> > more irritable and easily frustrated - throws more tantrums and is

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> > more persistent about complaining when he doesn't get what he

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> wants. 

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> > He doesn't sleep longer, but I think some of his irritability

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comes

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> > from being hungry (a new sensation) and tired.  He eats more, but

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> if

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> > he's busy, he'd rather keep playing than eat to get rid of his

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> > hunger - which of course keeps him grumpy.  However, many of these

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> > negative side-effects are seen in lots of 2 year-olds.

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> > On the positive side, he's in a good mood most of the time, his

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> > appetite has improved and he has gained weight.  We're going to

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> keep

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> > using it at this stage because some of the side-effects are

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getting

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> > better.  But we'll reassess it every 3-6 months depending on his

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> > weight gain and mood swings.  Our doctor suggested taking him off

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> it

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> > for a week to see how his personality changes.  We may do this,

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but

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> > think it would be too disruptive.  I'd rather wean him off slowly

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> > after he's gained a few more kgs.

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> > One other note, although his appetite has improved, his weight

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gain

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> > seems to come from more than just an increase in caloric intake. 

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I

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> > wonder if the medication changes the way the body metabolizes the

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> > food (you know what I mean - people can eat the same amount of

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> food,

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> > but how much weight a person gains depends in large part on their

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> > personal metabolism).

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> > (Tyler, 2.5 yrs, 20.5 lbs, 32.5 " , and , 15 mos)

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