Psychological Nagging

Troy’s daycare teacher made an off-handed comment to my wife that apparently Troy doesn’t eat at the daycare. He picks at the food or refuses to eat altogether. We were under the impression that he ate fine at school and only struggled at home. We attributed it to peer pressure at school versus being distracted at home. But I guess all this time we were deceived.

I’m worried, because the only food he gets is at dinner and on weekends. And even then, he only really eats because we’re constantly telling him to “take a bite.” I’m starting to think it’s psychological, just like him attributing sleep to someone being in the bed next to him. He will only eat because we’re nagging him.

So, as hard as it may be, we’re going to try to just put the food in front of him and leave him to it. When dinner time is over, we’ll pick the food up. Eventually, he’ll be hungry enough to eat, but we need to break his connection to our nagging him.