How can I help?

By asking your pediatrician how this happens with the effects of puberty on the body (in the sense of optical change).

Where do I start….

So. Remember your own puberty at that time (I don’t know how long this is with you). How easy one was insured by penetrating “good thinking” and unconsidered comments?

People have already slipped into disorders due to the increased interest (from relatives, teachers, friends, fellow students) in the nutrition of the adolescent.

In puberty, it’s hard for a grown-up. Who am I, where do I belong, what do I feel, what do I want, what do I don’t want, I want to be like…. why don’t anyone like me, I don’t like myself, I don’t like my body changes, my voice sounds corrosive and I’ve been laughed for it…. uvm.

Hormone production is starting slowly. But that’s a bit messed up. In addition, the strange growth of everyone else runs in puberty. While the younger fellow pupil is already 2 heads taller and even has a few hair on the upper lip, you might be the smallest one yourself and will now also be annoyed because the shirt sits a little spack.

Hormones affect so much in the body. Growth, development of the exterior, the possibility of reproduction is stimulated. And there it can happen that you do something. One is in the process of development, then one may have more hunger than others.

Already teenagers came back after the summer holidays, who were suddenly bigger, and/or thinner, or their voice now sounded different, or suddenly “bred” an upper lip milk bar.

I want to say: Your little brother is in the middle of development. To the very normal development chaos, plus the typical social difficulties you face more and more…. now another mother/sister packed “they are trying to regulate food intake even more”? It’s absolutely in the pants.

Do you want him to refuse food? Or start to develop a bad conscience as soon as he eats an apple piece?

Such a crap can accompany you throughout life

Instead of all this, you can simply make the meals offered a bit healthier (but definitely balanced). A bit of salad alone is not helpful. And animate to movement. Joint cycling tours during summer holidays. Go swimming together. Together… whatever ideas you can develop.

So yes, your mother is right: it’s about puberty (very likely).

Where… it can also be related to hormone misproduction…. This could be explained by the pediatrician (thyroidism, etc.).