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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We do the “as many bites as you are old” rule (3 year old tries 3 bites), and one “safe” food that they reliably eat. So if dinner is pasta, they try 3 bites. But there’s also blueberries (favorite food) and a roll (super favorite food).

Yep, this means that dinner was often 3 bites of pasta, a handful of blueberries, and a roll. But we did find that some foods became foods they would reliably eat after like 10-20 meals. [/quote]

How do you enforce it.  Do they have to continue to sit at the table until they have consumed 3 bites of each item?  Do they lose a privilege?  Just wondering because my #2 would never have done it.[/quote]
I have this same question. One of my children, after 10min of sobbing, will take a bite if forced. Been that way since he was a toddler, and is now 8. And he will usually gag on the forced bite. I used to do this every meal when he was a toddler but after 6 months of agony, and him NEVER eating the food voluntarily at a later date despite 20 forced bites of it over the month, I stopped. I have another child who would literally never do it. They’d sit at the table all night. [/quote]

I have never taken this approach.  I think it works for kids who are not particularly picky but just have a control phase when they so no to many foods but really do not care.  I never wanted dinner to be a battler.  #2 would not eat many foods the family ate.  I did not cater to her (like what would you like sweety I can make you anything)  but if she wanted cottage cheese or yesterdays leftovers, it was fine.  #2 is a young adult now.  She is a wider (but not wide) varieties of food.  She had told me how grateful she is that I did not force her to put food in her mouth that she could not handle.  She was always afraid of gagging and still is a bit.  She said that a no thank you bite rule would have made things worse.[/quote]

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