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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- Have them help you cook (yes, even 1 year olds can help. My 2 year old even helps cut veggies)
- always have something on their plate they want
- don't offer separate meals for them, but do separate the food if they request it. Ie pasta separate from the sauce, separate from the vegetables when the rest of the family eats it all combined. 
- they have to sit at the table for 15 minutes and ask to be excused
-no snacks, no alternative meals after dinner is over

We had to do tough love for a few months and then DD was back to eating vegetables and normal dinners. We try to make dinners fun and all of us eat together. Bonus is that when we go to restaurants she sits and eats amazingly well because she's had practice every night. [/quote]

Oh and something that works quite often: we don't give DD her plate yet when she sits down (plated vs family style on the table). We make her ask for it. She'll say "I want some pasta too!" and then we give her the pasta and she eats it. But she wouldn't eat it before. [/quote]

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