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[quote=Anonymous]Just a warning here to parents:  my dad made me clean my plate as a kid.  I would have to sit and eat every bit of things that actually made me gag: squash, (all kinds cooked), peas, Brussels sprouts, Lima beans, hard boiled eggs.  To this day, I hate, HATE, these foods.  Other things that we didn't have at home too often, that I didn't like the first few times I tasted them, like shrimp, I eventually learned to like, and in some cases, love.

Of course, there was a total double standard in my house, too, in that he didn't let my mom make foods that he didn't like, like liver or fish, which both she, and I, loved.

My take away from this is I ask my kids to take one bite.  If they really hate something, I don't serve it them again for a little while, and when I do serve it again, ask them to take just a small bite.  I also serve it with other things I know they love.  I am not, however, a short order cook.  If you don't like anything at dinner, you go to bed without.  That said, my kids will sometimes like something they didn't previously or stop liking something they loved before.  I try to roll with it as much as possible.

My kids are routinely complimented on their willingness to try new foods and on the wide variety of things they eat.  A mom of a boy in my daughter's class (3rd grade) said to me at BTSN, "Jack says Anne ( my dd) is so amazing the way she will eat things at lunch they have never had before.  He says she will try anything.  He is really amazed by Anne!"

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