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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I believe that most sensory issues come because parents are not good cooks when kids are young. Rare is a true feeding issue in kids. The reason this post is so loaded is that we all believe you contributed to your child sensory issue and don't believe you that it is a medical issue.[/quote]

Totally agree.  You rarely (meaning almost never) heard about “sensory disorders” when my kids were little.  They are young adults now.   Yes, there are rare medical conditions that make feeding difficult.  But 99.9% of the time it’s poor parenting. [/quote]

Eh I have plenty of family in their 60s who talk about how picky their kids were. My nephew, now in his late 30s, wouldn't eat much other than pbj growing up and I can assure you it wasn't from poor cooking or lack of stern parenting. My MIL talks about how picky her kids were until adulthood, she struggled with it. My FIL near 70 barely eats more than white bread, eggs, meat and potatoes and a completely plain salad and has visible angst at going to a restaurant. Just because it wasn't talked about or given a name back then doesn't mean it didn't exist.[/quote]
Is this nephew the son of these 60 year olds who were and are picky eaters?  Nobody mentioned stern parenting as the cause of picky eating, clearly it is the usually the opposite of stern parenting that causes eating issues. You know what most kids not in the US in the last 50 years ate when they didn't like what was cooked? Nothing. And nobody worried about it. If I didn't like the lunch grandma cooked, she most certainly did not make me a sandwich of any kind! Just the fact that your nephew had the pbj sandwiches speaks of why he became a picky eater.[/quote]

No, my point was that even folks who grew up with stern parenting typical of decades ago still ended up very picky eaters. In the case of my nephew he outgrew it. And my brother, in his 60s (nephew's dad) is a hunter who makes all sorts of things plus we are an Italian family who are fantstic cooks, but very cut and dry with parenting, and their other two kids aren't picky at all. My near 70 year old father in law also grew up with stern parenting, eat what's on your plate and is picky as can be. Will bring his own breakfast food when he visits to be safe for at least one meal a day. Just in case I don't have exactly what he likes.

People pat themselves on the back for raising eaters who aren't picky due to their parenting skills. A lot is probably not that and just different kids with different sensitivity to taste.

Middle class folks didn't go to restaurants back then as much either other than very special occasions so it was less common to be in this situation. People were used to what they ate at home and didn't have to leave their comfort zones as often. I can't imagine what my FIL would have been like as a kid in a restaurant back then!

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