Tuesday 31 January 2017

I could use some suggestions on righting the food ship with our second child.


Hi there, everyone -I am the father of two little boys. The oldest is 7 and his younger brother is 16 months. I am writing with a bit of a dilemma regarding feeding the youngest. Our older son has been diagnosed with ASD and a significant component of that is an extremely limited diet (he eats about 5 things [chicken nuggets, fish sticks, chips, carrots, sweet potato fries] and that's pretty-much it). When our oldest was younger and we were navigating the ASD challenges, we put food issues pretty low on the priority list. At this point, however, regrettably those limitations have become much more entrenched. We've made great strides in other areas but food we just didn't.Anyway - our youngest son started out open to trying anything we put in front of him but as he's gotten older he's seeing his brother eat nuggets or fish sticks and now he doesn't want anything to do with those different foods. I'm trying to figure out if there's any way to right this ship while he's still young given our limitations with our older son. Has anyone ever dealt with a situation like this? Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advance! via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2knhqsM

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