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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well I was feeling bad about my toddlers eating only half a thai veggie dumpling, a bit of chicken satay, and picking the pineapple out of the pineapple rice until this post. It is definitely not a European v. American thing--I lived as a child in both the US and Italy. Honestly it is the quality of food and spices used/kids are exposed to. It also is partially the parents palates. If you don't expose them enough when they are small, it wont happen until they are in their 20s[/quote]

Ah, the parent of a toddler--my kid ate EVERYTHING when she was a toddler--Indian, Thai, spicy food--if you served it, she'd eat it.  She was exposed to all sorts of cuisines and flavors, and happily ate them all.  And *then* she got picky (not as picky as some kids, but she started refusing foods she had been eating for years, refusing to try new foods, etc.).  Some of it is developmental.  Some of it is exposure.  Some of it is personality.  But it's not always something that parents can control.  We continue to offer a variety of foods, and we work on being polite when refusing a food, but there's only so much you can do.  [/quote]

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