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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Talk to a therapist with your husband.  What you are doing is causing eating disorders.  [/quote]

This.  I'm kinda horrified just reading this.  Have you looked at any Ellyn Satter books, I think they could help you.   You guys are acting in a very controlling way towards her eating habits, and it's already backfiring.  This will only get worse without intervention. [/quote]

OP here.  So, we should just let her not eat?  Go to bed eating two spoonfuls of pasta?  Really???

Wow, the replies here are so bad.  It's ridiculous.  Wow, just wow...[/quote]

As the mother of a 32lb 4yr old boy, yes. Yes you should let her not eat unless your pediatrician thinks there is an issue and she needs feeding therapy. You should read Ifs Not About the abroccoli or  Ellen Stter. [b]You decide what and when to eat.[/b] The kid decides how much to eat - including none. You could also try working with your daughter to find things she likes to eat and let her have unlimited amounts of those. My son likes unsweetened apple sauce and whole milk.[b] If he doesn’t like what we have for dinner, he can have that or a bowl of cereal. [/b]If you are yelling also, I think you need therapy yourself. I feel bad for your daughter and hope she doesn’t have lifelong issues with food and her weight. [/quote]
 In short, you are letting your child pick what they want to eat.  What happens if you cook something your DC doesn't like for a week?  You'd be ok with your child eating cereal for a week?
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NP but yes I would. If I was really stupid enough to cook a week's worth of meals that I know my kid hated or my kid was so picky or adverse to eating that he would choose to skip it, then cereal it is.

I don't see healthy eating as some kind of parenting win or fail. It just is.
I do not have a picky eater. I have a kid who eats just about anything that he comes across. But I was a rather picky eater as a kid and now I'm the most adventurous adult eater I know.

Taste evolve and change over time so I'm not going to make every meal, which is family time, some kind of stupid freaking battle over stupid green beans or what have you.

You, Op anyone else who feels like food should be about a really needs to met that this is a control issue for you.[/quote]

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