Is it just me or does this happen to anyone else?
I have twin boys who come to me at 8 and stay until 6 every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Mum always sends a cereal for them to eat around 10 with a piece of fruit then they have a hot meal when they awake from sleep at about 2/3 pm. I would also give them grapes and raisins at around 5 and they will go home to a cooked dinner in the evening.
Mum always reassures me that they eat the food I am given at home no problems and in fact they will look for more but I cannot get them to eat at mine. I put them up specially this morning for their cereal, heating the milk as requested by mum and all they did was look at it, then slop their fingers through the bowl and start spreading it over the table. I try to remain calm when this happens hoping they will not refuse to eat anything more but they just sit there and look at me - when I try and put a spoonful in their mouths they turn the head away. I have just given up very quickly and put them down from the table hoping they will be hungrier the next time.
Is this normal behaviour? I had to ask mum to stop sending dinner in the evening as they were not eating at all well with me - personally I felt it was just too much food (they are 2 years and 2 months old) with the timings of sleep and waiting until they were up for at least 1 hour afterwards to get a bit of hunger going.
Has anyone any suggestions as to what I could give them to eat or suggest to mum to help them eat at mine which is sufficient and filling if you know what I mean. I know mum thinks it is ridiculous that when they come home to her in the evenings that they would eat the hand of her but what I can I really do about it.
The other thing which I have noticed and have pointed out to mum but she thinks it is too much hassle is what she sends - it is the same every day for those 3 days in the week ie noodles this week for the 3 days and last week it was sausages with beans for 3 days. I have asked her to maybe do noodles one day, then sausages the next and then something else another day but she cannot see that this would make a difference or else just thinks that is too much hard work to think through an actual menu plan.
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