Yep, possessiveness is normal. Well, I say that because my DS does it too LOL He gathers all his stuff into a box or a wagon and it goes everywhere with him. Actually, it's settled down a bit now, he still yells at Kayla to go away if she's going near his current favourite toy, but he's not hording them like he used to. I used to laugh and say he'd make a great homeless man with his trolley of stuff. haha.
I think if his demands of helping him get them on the table are getting to you, then stop helping him. Tell him you're not going to help him until he asks nicely or something.
As for food.. no alternative foods in this house! If he picks at the meal that he's given, then that's his problem. I'm finding DS has picky days (not fussy... just picks and doesn't eat much) and then he has eat-all-day days! But yeah, he doesn't get anything else if he doesn't eat his meal. He's allowed to have an apple or something a bit later, but not a different meal. I've never catered to how things are cut or presented either.. except for giving him the choice of squares or triangles (everyone should have that choice )
I also grate veggies into EVERYTHING. I do the cauli in mash, fine FINE grated carrots in meatballs, peal zuccini and grate into mince, boil butternut/sweetpotato/marrows to a pulp and add to stews and mash and well, everything If I put enough cheese sauce on it, it might get eaten also.
Also I grate carrots/butternut/pineapple/apple/pear (just about everything I can grate, if I can't grate it, I purree it) into muffins, scones and cookies. Not all in one muffin, but ykwim!!
I have also found that if I do like balls out of watermellon, or slice apple in slices and press out stars with a cookie-cutter, it gets more than one look, MIGHT even get a taste out of it.
Don't forget some children need to see a new food on their plate 15 - 20 times before it becomes familiar enough for them to eat it. I'd try giving him something you know he will eat on the plate along with 1 or 2 new things - eventually if he sees it there often enough, and everyone else is eating the same thing, he might think to put it in his mouth. Don't conclude because he's refused it half a dozen times that he doesn't like it. Just keep trying.
He gathers all his stuff into a box or a wagon and it goes everywhere with him. Actually, it's settled down a bit now, he still yells at Kayla to go away if she's going near his current favourite toy, but he's not hording them like he used to. I used to laugh and say he'd make a great homeless man with his trolley of stuff. haha.
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If I put enough cheese sauce on it, it might get eaten also.
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