Guest guest Posted April 14, 2006 Report Posted April 14, 2006 I dunno. Does he have a red shirt? Can you explain that they used a color dye to make the shirt red instead of white? And how safe he has been wearing his red shirt? Jackie > > I've been laughing following this discussion because I'm having a problem > with this kind of thing too. My three and a half year old reacts badly to > red dye so I've been teaching him to avoid red foods that he can easily > identify as being filled with red dye. I should NEVER have used the word > " dye, " instead I should have used " coloring " as now he's convinced he's > going to DIE if he eats anything red. Quote
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2006 Report Posted April 14, 2006 Hi Does your son by any chance like the Tank Engine? If he does, you could use the red Engine as a way of making red a safe thing. My son at 3 refused to wear colors but I was able to persuade him into blue things because he loved and red things because he enjoyed it when was naughty and on and on... Regards, Trish > > I've been laughing following this discussion because I'm having a problem > with this kind of thing too. My three and a half year old reacts badly to > red dye so I've been teaching him to avoid red foods that he can easily > identify as being filled with red dye. I should NEVER have used the word > " dye, " instead I should have used " coloring " as now he's convinced he's > going to DIE if he eats anything red. I've tried to explain what " dye " is > but he just can't understand and talks about not wanting to eat anything red > so he won't die. At this point I don't really know how to fix it as he's > got it in his head that red things make your sick/die and I can't convince > him otherwise!!! > > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2006 Report Posted April 14, 2006 Hi! I had to laugh when I read your post! Mine does stuff like this, too. Recently, he learned all of his lc alphabet: " h " - " horse " . Good, right? Months later, we come to phonics. " What's this word? (H-A-T) " " Horse, alligator, turtle. " Also, we went to see my husband at his workplace today, and met him for lunch. Max was so excited, he jumped out of bed, and could do NOTHING all day until he went. Couldn't play. Couldn't eat breakfast. Because today was the day we were seeing Daddy at work. Nevermind that he had 4 hours from when he got up until we left to go there! - Adrienne from Boston --- <oldtintype@...> wrote: > I've been laughing following this discussion because > I'm having a problem > with this kind of thing too. My three and a half > year old reacts badly to > red dye so I've been teaching him to avoid red foods > that he can easily > identify as being filled with red dye. I should > NEVER have used the word > " dye, " instead I should have used " coloring " as now > he's convinced he's > going to DIE if he eats anything red. I've tried to > explain what " dye " is > but he just can't understand and talks about not > wanting to eat anything red > so he won't die. At this point I don't really know > how to fix it as he's > got it in his head that red things make your > sick/die and I can't convince > him otherwise!!! > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > __________________________________________________ Quote
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