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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what do you guys suggest doing to prevent picky eaters?

My son is 1.5 and very picky already.  I do tough love and just feed him whatever it is available.  Many times he throws it or won’t touxh it.  He’ll go to bed without any dinner.  I’m not doing separate meals for a child unless it’s truly something that isn’t kid appropriate (sushi, sweetgreen etc).

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Sometimes you can't. That's why it's so rude of other parents to judge. I have one kid, 4, who will eat anything. We went to friends' over the weekend and happily are biryani and chicken tikka and dal. My 9 yo has anxiety and one way it manifests is in food avoidance. She is so picky she won't even eat regular kid food like chicken nuggets or Mac and cheese. She hates restaurants and has her "safe" foodabat home.!i would give anything for her to not have that anxiety that limits her but it's not defiance or "pickiness," it's a self defense mechanisms that allows her to exert control and tame her anxiety. No amount of me forcing new foods has ever or will ever help. I offer and offer and occasionally she tries but I have forced it in the past and she had a panic attack and then vomited. Is this typical? No and I don't claim it is. But it's why people like OP suck when they just make blanket judgments that we are lazy parents with annoying kids who are doing this to other people to be pains in the ass. [/quote]

I wonder how many 9yos in Africa suffer from anxiety and avoid food as a self-defense mechanism.[/quote]

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