Is Your Child a Picky Eater?

Hi-5!


Repost Wall Street Journal article No Age Limit on Picky Eating previously discussed in our
July 17, 2010 Google blog post entitled, "Wise Up!"
http://familyenjoyinghi5autism.blogspot.com/2010/07/wise-up-questions-comments-sharingwater.html

As we prepare to see a genetics specialist, this is one of our concerns, besides autism causes and heredity links.

If you recall, this summer our son celebrated 5 years of enjoying life!  At his annual checkup, his new pediatric nurse practitioner directly stated that they are concerned about his lack of weight gain for the past 2 years.

The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders has a task force studying whether to  include picky eaters as having  obsessive compulsive tendencies, selective eating disorder not otherwise specified.  If approved, picky eaters will be classified as having a mental disorder in the updated DSM-IV scheduled for 2013.

What do you think?

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