If your children dont eat their dinner do you then give them something else that you know they will eat just so they are not hungry? there is a part of me that thinks if I keep doing it he will know that you dont have to eat your dinner cause you will get something you want?
I do do this, but I make sure that we have one night of dinner that I KNOW she will eat, and then the next night something that she should eat but I know in all likelihood that she won't, and if she doesn't eat it then she gets nothing else. I do soften a bit if she at least tries something, but most of the time if she does actually try something she doesn't want to eat she will vomit it up so its not really productive.

I struggle to do too much of the "eat that or nothing" because she is so tiny that I don't want to deprive her of at least something in her tummy