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[quote=Anonymous]For me the pet peeve is when moms give advice based on this premise that if you are struggling with X and they have never struggled with X then they must know more about and be better at X than you. It's just such flawed logic. There might be times when it's true but usually it's just that they have a different kind of kid who has different sorts of issues.

I have an extremely picky eater (has been diagnosed with an eating disorder at age 7) and I've learned to simply never mention this to other parents unless absolutely necessary because people LOVE to give you their advice on picky eating and they don't get that my kid's picky eating is not of the "ugh lasagna again" variety. It's of the "I'm scared of foods that aren't white or brown and the texture of about 70% of all foods makes me gag" variety. Like I do not need your insight on how you got your kid to eat sushi by promising them ice cream and I REALLY don't need to be lectured on stuff like avoiding added sugars or how important vegetables are.

It sucks because it's the kind of thing it would actually be great to be able to vent about because it is stressful and I'd love to be able to get moral support from other moms. But outside of close friends who have a lot of knowledge about what we've been through in this complaining about it to other moms usually just gets me a bunch of condescending advice that is completely useless to me because they don't understand the nature of the problem but assume they do because they've had the experience of a kid turning down an offered meal before. They think my kid has an eating disorder because I didn't do baby led weaning or something (jokes on them -- I did do baby led weaning!). They don't get that they are just lucky not to have a kid with this issues.[/quote]

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