I'm a step parent of two five year olds. The boy eats fine but, the girl cries consistently at almost ever single meal. She is considerably underweight for her age and it has become a health concern for everyone involved and her doctor. Her mother, with whom both children spend 90% of the their time with due to my husbands work, gives her brownies, cakes or treats at meal time if she does not want to eat what has been provided. At our home this is not acceptable. We do not cook foreign items or try and make her eat things we know she wont. I'm talking pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs, etc. She will eat a few minimal bites then say shes full or her stomach hurts. When we try and encourage, she turns on the water works. This is so very frustrating because we don't want to be the parents who force her to eat something, on the other hand she is underweight but, we don't want to instil the behavior of substituting junk for meals!