it's all in what works for your family

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Registered: 07-18-2009
it's all in what works for your family
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Sat, 07-18-2009 - 6:38pm

I don't believe that children that have parents that work outside of the house are at a disadvantage... I also don't believe that children that have a parent that stays at home somehow benifit.

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 5:25pm

i don't pretend to be any kind of adventurous cook.

 

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Registered: 07-10-2009
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 5:44pm

(shrug)

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Registered: 07-10-2009
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 5:56pm

It is true that my children are perhaps not that particularly stubborn.

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Registered: 07-10-2009
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 6:05pm
The point is... you said that your children didn't do that, as if you had no idea why.
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Registered: 05-13-2009
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 7:36pm
Color me stupid, but why would you serve nuggets to small children instead of baked chicken?
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 8:15pm

I do teach my children to be polite and respectful; I just don't do it by telling them what to do all the time. And in my house, respect goes both ways--I don't force a child to eat a food they have an aversion too. I teach them to say, no thank you.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 8:30pm
I don't know, but we do, and I sure don't want to spend our family dinners talking about how many bites of vegetables somebody has eaten.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 8:32pm
I was out to lunch yesterday and saw a sandwich on the menu called "the king." PB, bacon, and carmelized bananas on toast.
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Registered: 05-13-2009
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 9:04pm

As a member of the two bite club, our family has never talked about it either like that either. They just take what they want at the table, and it's usually a little bit of everything.

Food is not the ally or enemy in our household, it usually pleasurable as well as nutritious and sometimes sinfully delicious. We all like most fresh vegetables; I have 2 carnivores and one who mostly grazes in beans, grains and dairy (I never tell him you must eat the meat course!). My kids like lima beans and they absolutely disgust me, so I have to serve them sometimes. One loves raw littenecks and oysters on the half shell {shutter}.

The two bite rule means "hey - here's something new, try it, you may like it", it is not a battlefield as you seem to infer. It's an challenge that may have a payoff.

I've got one kid with sensory issues, but it's about fabrics not food. Kohls is not terribly pleased when you open up packages to try on socks - that's my lesson for the day...

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Registered: 07-10-2009
Sat, 08-29-2009 - 9:04pm

Actually, you said that you never expect your children to do as they are told.

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