smile therapy!! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!

Y: I don't want to eat my veggies and if you make me I'll force myself to throw up on the plate and cry until you let me go to my room) at dinner so he sent him to bed early, like at 5pm.
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POOR KID!! I have never understood the food battle. NEVER. If the kid does not eat veggies, (or atleast try them), then he gets no snack later. Why make a kid throw up at the table all because you want to MAKE him eat a veggie. That kid will really hate veggies when he grows up.

New mama…you have had some GREAT advice here. I really hope you use it.

This kind of reminds me of the marital therapy suggestion books that tell you to make the relationship better by having sex more. Exactly HOW do you work up the warm fuzzies and want to roll around naked with someone that you really would rather punch in the nose?????

I feel bad for you! Seems no matter what you do is just not quite good enough LOL! I give you major credit for all of these efforts and taking it seriously. I could never take lotion or smile therapy seriously for someone else's kid. As if this is all up to you? And where is your support?

i have to share something with you. that i think is funny in a sad kind of way. My mother is a VERY negative person. So I was brought up hearing my mother gossip and talk bad about people all the time, she was really bad about pitting my brother and sisters against eaching other. I was 28 yrs old when my parents divorce.(my mother met a new man and left) so we didn't speek to her for 8 months, mostly because we didn't know where she was at. My sister and I realized that for the first time in our lives we were getting along. and it became clear to us that is was because our mother was not there to stir things. So I went to work one day and told my co-worker that I was going to fine nice things to say about every customer that came in. You would think that would be easy right? Wrong! It was so in me to think negative things automatically, that I had to work at it. I still have to work at it and I'm 45 now. Its not that I Want to be negative, I don't. I really have to try hard not to be daily. I told you all that to say this. Help your ss loose the negative behavior. We did this with my SS7 and it is working. Start with one thing at a time. You may have 5 things on your list but do just one at a time. always pick your battle wisely. I think you will get no where fighting over the food issue. Let it go. Let him eat what he likes that you fix and don't worry about what he doesn't eat. However, don't cook a nice meal and then make him something different thats not what i'm saying. We started with my SS behavior at school, they have a color chart. Remember this is a time when their just learening to follow rules in a group. We do 10 minutes nose in the corner for the small stuff and no tv all night for the big stuff and its working great. I'm going to try the surprise bag idea that was posted by someone on here for trying to make ss cleaning his room without being told over and over. besure to always praise him for a good job. Good Luck.