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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I make what I make and our kids eat it or they don't. At the age of five she has no access to other food, unlike teens. How can she even get the idea that only hot dogs would be available? Someone had to keep buying them again and again until consuming them daily became part of the established food culture of the home. I think it is a mistake to try to force kids to eat things because the conflict makes them the center of attention. They should be free to choose what they eat but not what I provide. [/quote]

How nice for you.  If you had a child with ARFID, it would die.  Good job, I guess?

My best friend is a world traveler.  She will eat anything under the sun.  Her first child refused to eat.  They managed to figure out that she would eat plain pasta with butter.  That's all she would eat for a long time.  It had nothing to do with her parenting - her food choices were diverse and nutritious.

I am an adult 'picky eater'.  Some textures and tastes can make me gag so I avoid them.  My parents also did the it'll be there until you eat it and it didn't work, because I would throw up anything I managed to eat that wasn't plain.  Despite that, my child eats many foods that I don't and is willing to try things.

It's not the parenting.  You people are uneducated and wrong.  Keep thinking that torturing kids with eating disorders is good parenting though.[/quote]

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