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| Tonight I let my son eat only french fries for dinner. I wasn't up for the battle of eat your chicken tonight. Then after he ate his french fries, I even let him have a snack of vanilla wafers. Potatoes are vegetables...right???? |
| Posted by Lisa on 09/12/2007 09:47 PM
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| Sometimes you have to give in for your own sanety. French fries are a staple in my son's diet also. I've had some luck limiting them to one day a week. Although, I don't think he's ever eaten a fruit or vegetable (except the occasional banana or peas when he was 1). I've given up the fight and resort to daily vitamins. He'll grow out of it someday, right? |
| posted by elaine on 09/12/2007 11:37 PM
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| Hopefully..... |
| posted by Lisa on 09/13/2007 08:24 AM
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| One of my girlfriends gave me some advice the other day. Until your kids are five years old, feed them what they will eat. This very well may include french fries or Totino's Pizza Rolls. Honestly, that sounds horrifying to me, but then again, my child is only 10 months old. I have no idea what it will be like in a year when he refuses everything ;) |
| posted by Jade on 10/19/2007 01:33 AM
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| All you can do is keep introducing these foods to them. Eventually they will accept. They however may still have those few that they will never eat. When I was a small child, my parents force feed me, and now I have a food adversion. I never would eat vegetables( except green beans) or meat. Of course this made me anemic. It was not until I was out on my own that I began to try new things. Now I eat squash, greens, and no longer require that my tomatoes have the squishy part and the seeds removed. I still however will never love okra, corn, or homony. I will eat meat in moderation. So what I'm trying to say is, " Don't force feed the kids, but offer it and keep offering it". This is what I did for my daughter, who is now 13, and she is not a picky eater at all. I'm also going to try this approach with my son, who recently turned a year old. Through the years of raising my daughter I wanted her to eat different things and not to be as picky as me. I offered things that I would never eat to her and she grew to love them. I'd intoduce the food and tell her that she can be done if she took 5 baby bites or 3 big girl bites. It's a game that worked for us. Hope that you begin to see progress and never stop trying. :) |
| posted by busygirl0219 on 10/19/2007 02:54 AM
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When my first child was born, I had this vision of breastmilk only for 8-9 months, then only fresh, healthy foods - nothing canned or processed. But when he was 6 months old, I caught one of his aunts feeding him chocolate souffle!
When my third child was a toddler I only fixed processed and canned foods because I didn't have time for anything else.
Occasionally we do pancakes for dinner; or ice cream sundaes.
And some kids don't care that much for meat. When we were living with some friends for 3 months waiting for our home to be ready, we had meat main dishes every single night - even the spaghetti had large meatballs. One night my daughter, then 7, sat down at the table and said tearfully, "Can't we ever have a dinner without meat?" |
| posted by Kelly on 10/22/2007 03:32 PM
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