Anonymous
Post 04/06/2022 12:41     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Anonymous wrote:Our nanny is young, smart, and my kid loves her food. Anything nanny cooks is yummy and ours is gross. That’s what he said anyway. My wife is getting upset and how to make him understand not to hurt mom feelings. Please share. Background on our nanny. She is Ethiopian born and raised here, educated, early childhood education, speaks three languages and she is basically feeding our son Ethiopian dishes with our permission. My wife and I love international food, especially Ethiopian dishes and nanny has been with us since our son was three months old.


Why would tour wife be upset that the kid prefers home cooked food with flavor over frozen nuggets? If you said nanny makes chicken soup and wife makes chicken soup and kid prefers nannys then maybe there is something to work on. But here? Kiddo knows whats good. So ask nanny to cook more (and pay her) and learn to cook more.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2022 12:11     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Get your wife some cooking lessons, make it a date night
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2022 16:24     Subject: Re:My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Your wife should not be so easily offended. Your child will learn to lie to her, to avoid hurting her feelings. If the kid likes the nanny's cooking best, they should feel free to voice that opinion without worrying about someone else's feelings. You should be allowed to be an individual, with individual thoughts, feelings, and tastebuds.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2022 16:05     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Anonymous wrote:Our nanny is young, smart, and my kid loves her food. Anything nanny cooks is yummy and ours is gross. That’s what he said anyway. My wife is getting upset and how to make him understand not to hurt mom feelings. Please share. Background on our nanny. She is Ethiopian born and raised here, educated, early childhood education, speaks three languages and she is basically feeding our son Ethiopian dishes with our permission. My wife and I love international food, especially Ethiopian dishes and nanny has been with us since our son was three months old.


Children are cruelly honest. Your wife can't cook so she should ask the nanny to give her cooking lessons and pay her extra for these lessons.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2022 23:28     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
How old is your son, OP? I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a developmentally-appropriate power play. One of our kids is a picky eater and like with everything else, he picks way fewer battles with our nanny vs. with us. It's just the way it is with parenting.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2022 21:54     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
My 3 kids have never had disgusting chicken nuggets or other unhealthy "kid food." I would not allow that crap in our home.

On the other had they love Ethiopian Thai Indian etc. Just as DH and i do.

Look, I know my kids will eventually eat the sh*t food at school or friend's houses. But not at home.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2022 22:40     Subject: Re:My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Maybe learn a few pointers from Nanny.
Re: cooking native food.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2022 21:55     Subject: Re:My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Anonymous wrote:Ask your nanny to make double batches and freeze so you can give it to him when she goes home. There is no benefit to “kid food” and he’ll lead a healthier life without chicken nuggets.


OP here,

Nanny has agreed to make a weekend worth of food for the whole family.
We are paying Nanny for cooking on top of her salary. I watched my son at dinner time, the kid can eat when the food is good and I am truly ashamed trying to serve him frozen chicken nuggets. Nanny said she doesn't feed D's junk and frozen food.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2022 18:45     Subject: Re:My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Why are you giving him chicken nuggets if he happily eats healthier choices? How old is he? Don’t fall into the lazy “ kid food” trap.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2022 22:17     Subject: Re:My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
You can teach your child to be kind and correct him when he uses terms like “gross”. Explain how that makes you feel. But he is a child and not responsible for his adult mothers feelings. It’s okay that he doesn’t like the food his mom prepares - she can learn or ask the nanny to make extra.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2022 22:13     Subject: Re:My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Anonymous wrote:Ask your nanny to make double batches and freeze so you can give it to him when she goes home. There is no benefit to “kid food” and he’ll lead a healthier life without chicken nuggets.


+1.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2022 14:44     Subject: Re:My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Ask your nanny to make double batches and freeze so you can give it to him when she goes home. There is no benefit to “kid food” and he’ll lead a healthier life without chicken nuggets.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2022 14:11     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Anonymous wrote:Can nanny teach mom some of the basics of Ethiopian cooking


OP here,

We are both trying to learn how to cook kids friendly dishes from our Nanny but the kid has developed a taste already. He just knows when we cook his food. I try to make home made chicken nuggets and he asked for cold cereal last night. He refused the frozen chicken nuggets also.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2022 13:31     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Can nanny teach mom some of the basics of Ethiopian cooking
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2022 11:38     Subject: My two year old only wants Nanny cooking!
Our nanny is young, smart, and my kid loves her food. Anything nanny cooks is yummy and ours is gross. That’s what he said anyway. My wife is getting upset and how to make him understand not to hurt mom feelings. Please share. Background on our nanny. She is Ethiopian born and raised here, educated, early childhood education, speaks three languages and she is basically feeding our son Ethiopian dishes with our permission. My wife and I love international food, especially Ethiopian dishes and nanny has been with us since our son was three months old.