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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We ate dinner with our kids at that age, every day and lunches on the weekends too. This is how kids' meals and pickiness are probably created. Plus, kids don't see you eat ever?![/quote]

I am a PP who eats dinner with my kids and I kind of agree. I'm sure it's not the case for every picky kid but I do wonder about mine. We rarely ate with our older kid -- just fed him ahead of time and ate dinner later ourselves. He took to food very late and had speech delays, so his current pickiness may not be related to our table habits in his early years, but I do regret not having had him with us because it could have helped somewhat. Since his sister was born when he was 3 we have always sat down to family dinner. And she has always been far more willing to eat what she sees us eating (and she too had some speech issues). She goes through phases of only wanting to eat off my plate and i allow it because it means she will try almost anything. She is almost 2.5 and yesterday while helping me unpack groceries, she sampled -- raw and at her own request -- cauliflower, scallions, cherry tomato, and zucchini. And she really wanted to eat the melon rind but I wouldn't let her. By contrast her now 5 year old brother sampled only the cauliflower -- and that was a big step for him; in the past he's refused to try anything and he almost always proclaims he doesn't like it, unless it is cheese or sweets. Yesterday we made a breakthrough of sorts when he admitted to liking white rice for the first time and even ate 2 bites of it. A lot of it has got to be personality-based or in his head, but I see how much more willing he is to try things when he sees us eating them. (Willing being relatively because he's still very negative about it but we're working on trying to have him imagine to himself that he likes it before he puts it in his mouth, and that has helped a tiny bit.)

On the other hand my sister has always fed her kids just in the kitchen, grownups eat later, and the 18 month old also eats anything while the 4 year old doesn't (but is less picky than my son for sure) so -- who knows.[/quote]

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