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Not all children like eating. This sounds ridiculous to a grown woman who would happily eat two tubs of Häagen-Dazs and an entire Sunday roast for breakfast, and is regularly on some kind of fat-busting, bikini-wearing, stomach-shrinking diet or other, but it’s true. There are kids out there for whom eating is less interesting than visiting Byzantine churches on Saturday afternoons when they could be at a friend’s house playing Cover Me in Blankets and Jump on Me.

I have one of these kids. She has always been totally uninterested in food, could go for a whole day on nothing more than a few Shreddies and will almost never ask for something to eat. At the age of six she is still quite small and has a tiny frame with not an ounce of fat on her. But she does eat. She eats well, and regularly, and I have absolutely no worries about her at all. She just needs reminding that it’s time for more fuel, and then she realises she’s starving and eats like a horse. She is how she is, and forcing her to eat more than she wants or drawing attention to the issue would be a terrible idea that might result in big problems.

So if you have a child who doesn’t seem to eat as much as you might think they need, or is not at all interested in food, don’t worry. So long as they are getting some of all the food groups, still have three healthy meals a day and are roughly within the normal size range for kids their age, you probably just have a small one. If you have any concerns go to your doctor.