Getting my 2 year old to eat is currently going just as well as keeping my hardwood floors in my entryway clean during the slushy snowy winter. I'm not even talking about getting the kid to eat healthy food. No no, I am just talking food in general. If it is food, he is not interested.
This is not a problem I faced with my oldest kid, and it really wasn't that big of a problem with the little dude until recently. And before you get all "just put the food on his plate and make him eat that or nothing" on me - let me just tell you that I have. And we do. And we did. And we will do again. And he just won't eat.
He doesn't care that you won't give him a snack or that he is going to bed hungry. He won't complain about that at all. He'll happily go to bed hungry and he will just move on after a decently manageable fuss when you tell him he can't have a snack. And if you tell him that he has to eat what is in front of him or nothing at all, he is relieved because you gave him the option to eat nothing at all. And when you tell him he has to sit at the table and wait for everyone else to be done, he will. He might be bored or make faces at us all after a while...but he will sit there and he will wait.
