Toddler behaviour help for food refusal

You might remember a recent blog about a 3 year old little boy who would only eat 3 foods - chocolate, milk and white bread.

https://www.nurtureparenting.com.au/what-to-do-when-your-child-only-eats-3-foods-chocolate-milk-and-bread/

This is mums' success story about the impact Karen (me) from Nurture Parenting had on this little boy and the whole family.

I love my child, but I don't really like him'... They were the words that flowed out of my mouth (and mountains of tears) when Karen came to help me with my 3 year old son (N) all those months ago.

I knew I was not a bad mum but I had started to wonder over time what I was doing wrong to have N exhibit such daily challenging behaviours (he is only 3!, how can it be so hard to parent him). N is a loving sensitive but strong willed little boy very attached to his mummy.

Since the age of 2 (when his brother came into this world) his behaviour had deteriorated. He started refusing to eat any main meals but begged all day for snacks, descending into tantrums when he did not get his own way (which was most of the time and often about other things as well as food).
He whined and shouted at me a lot of the time and towards the end, hit me when things weren't going his way.

This made me very anxious and upset and neither my husband and I knew what strategy to use. So we tried them all at various times and of course things got worse (and so did the arguments between each other).

When we finally admitted defeat and called in Karen (after a whole year), even after the first session I felt a big weight was lifted. Karen gave us fantastic strategies (our favourites being time out, the child's game and the 5 minute warning) to deal with his bad behaviour and his challenging eating habits.

She also looked at our family holistically and helped me understand why it had gone so wrong.

Karen taught me and my husband (but mostly me) to tune my parenting to fit N's personality and needs. She taught me how to talk to him at his level and use appropriate language. It took a few months but I can honestly say he is a different child and there is nothing I don't like about him now.

There are so many challenges that have been resolved that I have not mentioned but if I just say, all have been resolved thanks to Karen.

Our family is 100% happier. Karen has been our angel.

If any of you have a challenging toddler or child, I can help you. I'm trained in Psychological Behaviour interventions from the UK and I'm Triple P trained from Australia.

http://www.triplep.net/glo-en/home/

I can help you turn any tricky toddler/child behaviour situation around.

All you need to do is fill in a contact form on my website and I'll give you a call to discuss how my specific strategies can help you.

Don't delay...do it today!

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Karen really understand Toddler Behaviour

I have been going to Karen since my daughter was 7 weeks old. Even through her toddler years, Karen has been spot on and has helped immensely with toddler behaviour related questions. Karen guided me through potty training issues and how to best navigate them based on my strong willed child.

Nurture Parenting - knowledgeable, supportive and gentle

Karen was understanding, kind and supportive with clear strategies to help improve our toddlers sleep. She explained what was happening and gave us a plan to follow. This is the second child we have used Karen’s methods with and I would recommend Nurture Parenting to any parents wanting to better understand their babies sleep and gently help them to self soothe and sleep better.

After buying Karen’s newborn program and successfully using it on baby 2, i decided to start even earlier with baby 3. I got a little confused on certain things since she’s preemie but Karen helped me go back to my core and center, listened attentively and answered all my questions. She also went beyond that and shared new ideas with me. It was ace. I might book another in a few weeks if needed. For now baby is doing everything by the book

Advice and videos are so clear and succinct

I just wanted to write and say thank you. We started your program almost three weeks ago, and it has dramatically changed our babies sleep for the better. Toby (10 months) went from waking 6+ times each night. We fumbled during each wake, as we offered dummies, bottles, whatever we thought would stop the crying for a moment. The only thing that we achieved, was waking him up even more and frustrating the **** out of him!

The first night of magic presence took 40 minutes, and now he is down within minutes once he is placed in the cot. We have had a few sleep throughs as well.

Your advice and videos are so clear and succinct. We found them so easy to follow. To compare, we looked back on a sleep consultant plan that we paid $300+ for with our firstborn and were stunned at how complicated and convoluted the plan was. No wonder it didn't work!!

I was so nervous about going back to work being so sleep deprived, and I was also concerned about how Toby would cope with the transition to day care. However, I now feel a lot more confident (and well rested!).

All the best and thank you again.

Christina

I'd pay 10 X what I did for this sleep program

never wanted to sleep train, I didn’t think I could personally tolerate listening to my baby cry endlessly. It surprised me how quickly my 7mo picked this up. Night one we removed the dummy and overnight feed cold turkey. We’re on night 11 and bub has been sleeping through almost every night since night 2 (we’re still battling early wakings every now and then). Day naps have also improved remarkably! I’ve also got one of the mums in my mother’s group onto this who is having huge success with her 8mo boy who she fed to sleep previously!

As my title says, I would pay 10x the amount for this program knowing how well it worked! Listening to the crying whilst in the room with bub was hard, but I know my presence was reassurance for her and it is the only reason I went with the program!!

Thanks so much Karen for this program, it’s working beautifully for us and I know it’s setting us up for long term success! I will recommend to anyone who will listen 😂

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