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My Son Won’t Eat His Dinner: Here’s 39 Reasons Why

August 27, 2014 by Beau Coffron

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Maybe some of you have a picky eater in the house. My daughter will try most things, but my 4-year-old son has a new reason every day for why he won’t eat. To borrow a line from the movie A Christmas Story, “My son works in reasons why he won’t eat the way other artists might work in oils or clay. He’s a true master.”

Here are 39 reasons why my son won’t eat dinner:

1. I don’t want a baby spoon.
2. This spoon is too big.
3. Mommy makes it better.
4. Oranges are scary.
5. Pasta is scary.
6. I want a big boy cup.
7. I spilled my drink.
8. Water is scary.
9. Daddy makes it better.
10. Cantaloupe makes my lips tingle.
11. This plain pasta with butter is too spicy.
12. I’m tired, can I be done?
13. I only like blue carrots.
14. I’m not tired anymore I just want dessert!
15. I’m not hungry for dinner, can I have a snack?
16. I don’t like salad (said if any microscopic speck of green anything is spotted on his food).
17. Oops! The dog ate my dinner!
18. I gave the dog my fruit, he looked hungry.
19. I gave the floor my food, it looked hungry.
20. She looked at me.
21. He looked at me.
22. It’s too cold.
23. It’s too hot.
24. The dog looked at me.
25. I don’t like yellow scrambled eggs.
26. Sister touched me.
27. Sister won’t sit next to me.
28. I’m a chocolatarian, I only eat chocolate (OK, I made this one up but I’m positive it’s coming soon).
29. I want strawberries.
30. I don’t like “THOSE” strawberries.
31. What are you making? Whatever it is I don’t like that.
32. Can I have milk in my cereal?
33. Why did you put milk in my cereal?
34. How come she gets more? I want more … I’m full, I don’t want my food.
35. I liked tomatoes yesterday, not today.
36. I don’t like this plate.
37. I only want the one bowl in the house that is impossible to find right now.
38. I just want cherries! (said a day after he would rather be thrown into solitary confinement rather than touch a cherry)
39. This food came within one inch of touching another food. The whole plate is now yucky.

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared on Lunchbox Dad.

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Filed Under: National, parenting advice Tagged With: food and drink, humor, picky eaters, toddlers

About Beau Coffron

Beau Coffron, formerly of our San Francisco Dads Group, blogs about making fun lunches for his kids and the lack of sleep he gets with a baby in the house at the blog Lunchbox Dad. Beau and his daughter have appeared on TV and been featured on People.com. He was named one of Babble’s Reader's Choice Top Bloggers for 2013. He lives with his wife, daughter, and two sons now live in Oklahoma.

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