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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t really understand this issue which is so common among parents. When I was a kid we ate what was put in front of us or we didn’t eat. ‘You get what you get and you don’t get upset.’ Of course we were neuro typical so I certainly understand in some cases kids can’t cope, but neurotypical kids will not starve themselves, they will eat eventually. When I see mothers (it’s almost always mothers) bending over backward and preparing multiple meals to accommodate all preferences I am just mind blown. I don’t know any kids I grew up with who had that kind of . . . coddling. Is it part of what they teach in the parenting classes and books of recent decades? If not, how does this even start? Are young moms really so afraid their child will fail to thrive absent constant efforts to provide them with the food they want? What I’ve seen in practical terms is a lot of American kids growing up eating chicken nuggets most nights or Mac and cheese or whatever their favorite and not actually getting a good balanced diet nor an exposure to various foods that will encourage an inquisitive palate in later life. It’s sad.[/quote]

You're missing the point. We all have this rule of "you get what you get" but the kids still get upset. EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.
I have never in my life prepared multiple meals for the family. I make one healthy, balanced dinner that isn't spicy. The kids whine about eating it, every night, because they want pizza or something like that. The moms I know who serve frozen nuggets and that sort of junk don't complain about their kids not eating. To add insult to injury, these are meals that my kids used to devour happily when they were toddlers.[/quote]

Yes to all of this. Also, my kid won't even eat pizza or nuggets or Mac and cheese. So I could to "easy kid meals" and it wouldn't matter, we'd still be having this battle and I'd still be exhausted. So I serve healthy food and she complains and complains and we say, if you won't eat what is served, you can get yourself plain bread with butter or plain yogurt with granola. And she'll eat that and then complain she's still hungry and we'll point to her dinner and she'll cry and complain and make herself more bread with butter.

Now cue the people who will yell at me for the fact that my kid only eats bread with butter, or who will tell me I must be a bad cook (jokes on you, my DH is the cook and I think his food tastes great).

None of that makes it any less exhausting to simply try to feed a child so she doesn't starve to death. I now understand crap like "clean plate club" or the parents who used to tell their kids "there are starving children in [insert inappropriate reference to a developing nation or region]." They just wanted their kids to eat their food and stop complaining. I see the problem with those things but I now totally understand why parents resorted to them because it is insane how hard it is to just get some kid to eat.[/quote]

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