The advice is perfectly sensible, though I'd add a few things:
1. It would be reasonable to go to the bakery and pick up a chocolate cupcake for Son. That's a very sensible accommodation for a beloved family member with some dietary restrictions.
2. If you go into every "new food opportunity" with the belief that you just KNOW your child won't like it, you're setting your child up for failure before you even get started. Which ties in to
3. In my experience, pediatricians are people and people are extremely ignorant about food aversions. LW's concerns about what Son will and will not eat are already affecting daily life. It's time for LW to get a referral to an occupational therapist or an SLP who handles feeding issues to see if they do need more help. If nothing else, I think LW could benefit from some more targeted education on how to parent a kid with serious food aversions. I don't know that Son does need special help, but I do know that the pediatrician may not be the right one to make that call so long as the weight is on target. You gotta talk to a specialist.
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1. It would be reasonable to go to the bakery and pick up a chocolate cupcake for Son. That's a very sensible accommodation for a beloved family member with some dietary restrictions.
2. If you go into every "new food opportunity" with the belief that you just KNOW your child won't like it, you're setting your child up for failure before you even get started. Which ties in to
3. In my experience, pediatricians are people and people are extremely ignorant about food aversions. LW's concerns about what Son will and will not eat are already affecting daily life. It's time for LW to get a referral to an occupational therapist or an SLP who handles feeding issues to see if they do need more help. If nothing else, I think LW could benefit from some more targeted education on how to parent a kid with serious food aversions. I don't know that Son does need special help, but I do know that the pediatrician may not be the right one to make that call so long as the weight is on target. You gotta talk to a specialist.