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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the 10:49 post-er.

Want to say something about kids refusing to eat certain things.

My memory of my childhood is that I ate almost everything.  Very, very few things were on my "yuck" list (pickled beets and brussels sprouts were two of them).

So when my preschooler became a picky eater, I was confounded.  "Really, you only like ONE kind of mac-n-cheese?"  "Wait, you hate ALL vegetables?"  "Seriously, you had to barf when you smelled the asparagus?"  Heh.

But we found a few healthy things that she does like (whole wheat versions of starches, black beans, cucumbers, banana-and-buttsquash "pudding"), and to tbe best of our ability, we limit access to outright junk food.

Our preschooler truly refuses to put things she doesn't like in her mouth, and she really will choose to go hungry rather than eat a "yuck."  Absent force-feeding her (how obnoxious is that?), we had to work around her aversions. So we do, to some extent, "cater" to her palate, meaning we try to have at least one child-friendly calorie-dense healthy option at the table that we're almost certain she'll eat.

But (healthy) dessert is only an option if she eats a mommy-and-daddy validated healthy, well rounded meal.

Thedinnertime stress is much better, now.[/quote]

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