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@Sarah some days are so tough ! How do I break the habit? He just won’t sit and eat and refuses to feed himself. He was great when he was younger but now he just won’t touch anything even his go to foods! If it’s no iPad it’s playing a game with him and hand feeding. The nap part with childminder is my own fault. Because he won’t eat with her I worry he will sleep hungry and when I bring him home he is starving. She has tried to feed him etc but he refuses with her too. I need to fix this asap!
I'm certainly not pro at all of this, but I guess I just wouldn't give him the iPad anymore. He will learn to eat without it again. Can you teach him how to spoon feed/use a fork? Oh, yes so links in with the above issue. I'd say focus on the mealtimes and you will fix the sleeping too. Believe me, if he was hungry enough he would eat at nursery x
Can you try music at mealtimes instead of the iPad? Whether that’s Disney, your preferred music or nursery rhymes? Do they still have milk I can’t help with childminder etc as my daughter doesn’t go, but if he doesn’t want to eat before nap, then maybe it’s worth him waking up hungry and trying to eat after instead. Maybe try taking the pressure off food, have a little graze plate he can pick at in between playing, or let him pick something that he likes the look of from your plate?
Your not a bad mum. Motherhood is hard! I would say that the iPad for eating is just a bad habbit that your child needs to get out of, I would stop giving the iPad and eventually they will learn they arnt getting it. You shouldn't have to pick your child up from the childminder, she should be trying to get him to nap (if she cannot do this then personally I would be looking for alternative childcare) It's not long until the clocks go back so 5.15am should become 6.15am wake up x