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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]22:07 again... and definitely, no short order cooking at dinner!  ALL of the kids eat what you and DH eat (hopefully, "real" food, as opposed to kiddie food) every night. If they are not hungry, they don't have to eat a lot, but one bite of each item. Then NOTHING MORE until breakfast, which is at a generally set time (7:00 a.m.?) every day, even weekends.

Tighten up the ship, mom![/quote]

Do you have kids?  Seriously, there's no way my kids have the pallet to eat the types of spices and flavors that DH and I have.  I don't expect my kids to eat enchiladas or salmon.  I give them cheese quesadillas and fish sticks.  Your advice is not a great idea for a kid that has shown his determination not to eat certain foods.  And then you want to take away the only meal he likes?

I'm thinking you haven't actually been through this except in the books.  Don't  you know:  you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink!  [/quote]

I actually have 3 kids, thank you very much, and all are great eaters BECAUSE we give them exactly what DH and I eat. If your kids don't have a great palet, thre is only one reason: you haven't exposed them to interesting foods. If you are eating the enchiladas and salmon and stick them with the quesadillas and fish sticks, I feel sorry for them.[/quote]

Aren't you just assuming the cause and effect?  I have offered my children what we are eating (offered to let them smell it first or try a tiny bite) and they do not want it at all.  I don't blame them b/c I remember being a kid who did not want dressing on my salad and I didn't eat veggies other than corn and green beans.  The kids have seen us eating things for years and yet, they have NO interest in it.

And how do you explain when one kid in a family is super picky and the others aren't?  Doesn't that just go to show that there are different tastes and different levels of rigidity/flexibility innate to each child?  If the parents are the same for the picky and non-picky kids, how does your theory of cause and effect account for that?

OP, I really think you should try the 180 degree opposite of what you are doing now.  Just don't comment at all on DS's eating.  See what happens after 1 week.  It's worth a try.[/quote]

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