My 5 year old wont stop eating!what should I do?

Question

My best friend is having serious problems with my 5 yr old who wont stop eating.She feeds him big plates of food and he just wants more and more.if she refuses he sneaks into the kitchen in the middle of the night to steal food from the fridge,he will cry until he is fed.He is currently like 20lbs over weight and she is not sure what to do.She has punished him,tried talking to him,Threatend him,spanked him..and he wont stop..what should she do?Help 911

Answer 1

slowly change his diet... give him non- food like awards   such as a star sticker or a small race car or something

Answer 2

make her drink 2-3 glasses of water before meals so she can get a full stomach and eat little

Answer 3

You need to talk to his pediatrician. That sounds like something is wrong.

Answer 4

Where are you while all of this is going on?   Your "best" friend shouldn't be doing what you should be doing.

Going to stop now, because this "story" is sounding all too familiar.  We must have watched the same thing at the same time, on the same day.

Answer 5

There is a disorder or disease which causes people to constantly crave food, and it shows up in children. It's serious--these people really can't help themselves. I can't remember its name but have seen several articles about it, and when you say the kid sneaks into the kitchen at night to get food, I wonder if this kid has it. If it were my kid, he'd be seeing a doctor pronto, and I'd insist on seeing a specialist. This sounds like something more than simple greed.

Answer 6

he might get ready to grow soon. dont starve him, make him eat a heathy breakfast, a healthy lunch, and a healthy dinner, and a heathy snack before bed. get a child lock and put it on the fridge before YOU go to bed, so he wont get into the fridge. well, break his habit of eating and feed him like carrots and other fruits and veggies when hes hungry!

Answer 7

Unless she wants to be the world's fattest kid, do something.

Give him some vegetables and tell him it's KFC.

He won't know the diffrence.

Answer 8

if he steals food...keep healthy choices where ever he can reach...veggies...jell-o etc...the key is to buy things that are healthy and not detrimental to his health....also go to a nutritionist....

Answer 9

slap the c**p out of hit and be like no fat *** you cant eat any more or you will never get laid in your life. haha jk jk i have no clue sorry

Answer 10

Let him eat all he wants. He should vomit or feel uncomfortable soon after and he'd stop.

Make sure he learns his lesson.

Answer 11

Why is she watching your 5 year old to start with?

Only feed normal portions, do not listen to the nagging he knows that works.

If you have to put a lock on the fridge.

Don't buy any fattening foods. leave a bag of carrots on the table, thats a good snack.

Spare the rod, and spoil the child.

Do you have a good belt?

Answer 12

Lock the fridge and cupboards, and give it a month or so.

If at the end of the month he is absolutely gaunt, take him to the doctor and have him tested for a metabolic disorder. There is one that is rare and makes the brain incapable of shutting off hunger, so people always feel like they're starving.

It sounds more like a disciplinary problem though.

Answer 13

You could try feeding him so much all the time until he feels really sick, and goes off food, I have tried this with children who are addicted to junk food and chocolate and it works.

Try to take him to a child psychologist, this is an eating disorder and needs to be treated before it becomes a permenant problem.

Really good luck with this problem, I hope this has helped a little.

Answer 14

Well you know what hun, if the unhealthy food is not there..he won't eat it, now will he? If the little booger wants food, give him salads and chicken. He'll stop eventually if you do this :)

Answer 15

Make him go outside and exercise. Give him healthy snacks like carrots and ranch flavored water, tortilla chips, take the JUNK AWAY! She should be in control. He'll grow out of it eventually.

Answer 16

fill pantry with lots of healthy food and some junk, and weekends walk to the nearest IceCream store to brun calories and get IceCream! Also put lock on pantry

Answer 17

get him a nintendo wii

Answer 18

Take him to the doctor or a nutrionist, so that they can state the facts to him and scare him :D

Answer 19

lock up all the food.

get him on jenny craig.