As you are aware form my Magic Moments Post Ethan has been eating grapes. This really is an amazing achievement for him and one that come about with the help of our Family Support Key Worker.
Ethan’s nursery had mentioned that he had been eating the snacks with the the other children and in passing they had said the word fruit. Well the only fruit I know that Ethan will eat is bananas and he only started to eat these because he saw grandad eating them. Our Family Support Key Worker requested that the nursery write in Ethan’s to and fro book what he eats as food is such an issue, and two weeks ago they had written that Ethan had eaten red grapes. I then asked how they were prepared as I know that they would have to look the same here as they are in nursery otherwise Ethan would push them away. They let me know that they cut them in half, our Family Support Key Worker had also mentioned that when she was visiting Ethan at nursery she saw him put a strawberry into his mouth. Armed with this information I added strawberries and red grapes to our shopping list.
On the day our food was delivered I prepared Ethan the following snack…
I’ve found that too that leaving something and not making a big deal of something can lead to it being eaten after all.
That is a very big achievement! I wish we could nudge Yon into eating ANY kind of fruit… We have reached 3 teaspoons of salads, and one grape. And it’s not going smoothly.
Great post!
Yes, I leave things too, they often go back in the end. It’s wonderful when you can add another food item to their list of what they will eat.
That’s great. I think your method of just leaving him to it is definitely the right one, no matter how hard it is! Maybe he will start on the strawberries soon 🙂
Well done Ethan!!
Yes not making a big deal out of things really helps….Works for us anyway 🙂
Yay! Our son never ate any fruit until going to nursery, I guess it was seeing the other children eat it at snack time. He now will pick his apple PECS to tell us he wants one.