5 YEAR OLD MALNOURISHED, PARENTS TRIED EVEYTHING

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on February 13, 2012 at 7:23am

I agree!

Michael E.

Barry Neale said:

HI Elaine,

 

As I mentioned in the previous post and now with your follow up this is a family problem NOT a problem child. The more focus there is on the food the bigger the problem will become. My first thought is where is the father? Why was he not there. how is the relationship between the parents? It sounds to be that the mother is the one that needs to make changes and if she does the food issue will probably cease to exist.

 

The reality is children at this age often are fussy/picky eaters. If you ignore it, it most likely will go away, focusing it on it will make it stronger.

 

Again I highly recommend that you read Strategic Family Therapy. It will give you a lot of food for thought!

 

barry

 

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Grabke on February 13, 2012 at 3:20pm

Hi Elaine,

my immediate thought was a different problem like the boy's eating habit, but maybe you can still take something from it. I thought of a story I read in a book. It was about a girl, who had trouble doing division. Addition, substration, multiplication was all fine. Division was really difficult for her. She got help when the people working with her found out that her parents got divorced a while back and the girl lived with the mother and the son with the father. The division problem started around that same time. What happened was that the girl took the pain of her family (one big whole piece) being divided and transported it to math. A big whole number was supposed to be broken into pieces.

I guess what I want to say with this is: find out what eating (or putting food into his mouth and swallowing it) actually means for the boy. Just with the girl it may be that the answer is unconscious to the boy. But then again, we all here know about hypnosis, so this "unconscious stuff" shouldn't be any problem to you.

Good luck and all the best!

sarah 

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Permalink Reply by Elaine Martin on February 14, 2012 at 10:44pm

It is certainly another angle to look at, thanks for your input Sarah

Sarah Grabke said:

Hi Elaine,

my immediate thought was a different problem like the boy's eating habit, but maybe you can still take something from it. I thought of a story I read in a book. It was about a girl, who had trouble doing division. Addition, substration, multiplication was all fine. Division was really difficult for her. She got help when the people working with her found out that her parents got divorced a while back and the girl lived with the mother and the son with the father. The division problem started around that same time. What happened was that the girl took the pain of her family (one big whole piece) being divided and transported it to math. A big whole number was supposed to be broken into pieces.

I guess what I want to say with this is: find out what eating (or putting food into his mouth and swallowing it) actually means for the boy. Just with the girl it may be that the answer is unconscious to the boy. But then again, we all here know about hypnosis, so this "unconscious stuff" shouldn't be any problem to you.

Good luck and all the best!

sarah 

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