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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tea time= food in between meals. 
Gaiter= food in between meals.
Snack=food in between meals.

There's no difference. [/quote]

Missed the point. What PP was trying to get to above was that the first two are fixed times, or a 1x per day, food in between meal times. And, well, not everyone has tea anymore. The difference with American snacking is that it is more of a continuous grazing. We eat all day, every day. If the kid is not being fed a sugary popsicle (that is pure junk food) it's goldfish, crackers, yogurts, snack bars, or similar. Kids here never have a break to get hungry. We snack ALL DAMN DAY. That's the difference.

I have a neighbor who tells me that her kid doesn't have a big appetite. When he comes for meals, he barely eats anything. She says he just doesn't eat much. However, before lunch and right after lunch, he eats Pringles, goldfish or Rice Krispies. During the afternoon, he eats other chips and salties. I had him for a whole day, she sent a bag of snacks and that's all he ate. Yet she told me that he doesn't like to eat big meals. No, it's because he eats crap all day. Same thing here. Or with all of the country actually.[/quote]

OP here. Honestly, where I come from picky eating and kids menu is not a thing. Kids eat the same thing as grown ups and it could be spicy, bitter, whatever. You learn to like different foods. Here it seems like my friends’ kids pick at their (kid-friendly) meals and run off to play, then ask for snacks half an hour later in a really bad mood. That was not the expectation for us growing up. You sit, you eat a full meal, you go off and do our thing. That’s how I raise my kids and everyone is surprised that they sit and eat a meal. I think little kids are completely capable of it if you don’t disrupt their natural hunger.[/quote]
Just stop OP.  You’re kids are not the only ones who sit and eat a healthy meal everyday. You really are coming across as holier then thou. [/quote]

I’m in several moms groups online and one of the perennial questions besides what is this rash is what should I cook for dinner so my kid will eat it/ I’m tired of cooking several dinners/ my kid is so picky and I don’t know what to do about their eating.

The answer is apparently do Ellen Satyr which means making sure there is a carb at the table your kid will eat or serve crackers and cheese for dinner or make them forage for their own food when they are old enough. Does that seem like a lot of parents know how to get their kids to eat regular meals or think it’s an important thing to do?[/quote]

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