The Checkup

Not mine. Even when they bound, they mostly won't eat.

When they were little (they're now 12 and 15) and I exerted more control, they started the day with nice bowls of oatmeal. But they lost their taste for that, and neither ever developed a liking for cold cereal. We went through a long homemade pancake phase.

Nowadays, they'll occasionally team up to cook a brunch of bacon, scrambled eggs, whole-wheat toast, fruit and milk/juice on the weekend. On weekday mornings, though, my daughter usually just heats up a mug of skim-milk Ovaltine, a fairly nutritious option that's better than nothing.

My son? Nada.

-- Jennifer Huget

benbess wrote:

My son is in middle school and has to get up early. Food is unappealing at that hour. Maybe that is another reason middle and high schools should push back their start times: so kids will actually eat.

We require a glass of milk, as a minimum. He can put chocolate in it if he wants. (He usually doesn't.) Protein, fluid, some sugar (just from the milk) and he will be able to cope, for a while at least.