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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, I have never heard of Ellen Satter, nor have read her books.  I am extremely rigid about dinner, I do no short order cooking.  They either eat it or they don't.  I think that I started this around age 2.   Personally I think 1 is too young, and I would focus on giving him a selection of appopriate foods that he will actually eat.  You can also add in things from your dinner table just to have him try it.

I of course don't force my children to eat all their dinner, [b]but I still use the must eat one bite of everything method with great success in my house.  Sometimes kids get it into their minds they won't like something, then they try it, and they realize it tastes good[/b].[/quote]

PP, can you say more about how you get them to even try one bite?  Short of jamming it forcefully into their mouths, I'm not sure how you accomplish this.  I agree- once our kids actually try something, they often times like it, but it's the getting them to try it the first time which is hard.  We don't do dessert so I can't use that as a stick/carrot.[/quote]

Offer fruit and vanilla yogurt (full fat is delicious!) as dessert. Sometimes we'll also do dark chocolate. Or find some other carrot--make a chart. If they follow the one bite rule M-F, they get to choose a movie/special outing for the weekend.[/quote]

Yes, we use bribery to get him to try things...a single gummy bear (actually we often bribe him with his chewable vitamins...he hasn't caught on yet) or if its a particularly "weird" food a t.v. show or something else that he has in his mind he wants to do.[/quote]

You know you can do what you want, but using sugary foods and dessert type foods as a "reward" is a pretty bad idea.  When one eats these type of foods it releases dopamine in the brain. When you use these foods as a reward, your brain becomes even more hard wired to tell you that after a stressful time (IE forcing a child to eat all on their plate or forcing them to eat foods they dislike) you are then made to feel better and rewarded by sweet treats.

Many people use food to self-medicate and really end up struggling with obesity and food addictions.  I'm strongly against using food as a reward in any situation. Food if fuel and not a reward.[/quote]

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