hopelesslysoulful wrote:I’m not a parent, so I don’t really know the appropriate protocol in today’s society. But when you have a picky eater, isn’t there a point in time where you should just make your kid eat some veggies and healthy food? I used to be a picky eater as a kid and my parents wouldn’t let me leave the table until I finished dinner (where I would have to eat the veggies is despised).
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I have a toddler so it’s a little different but she has her periods of very picky eating. We do all the tricks of sneaking veggies in sauces, smoothies, pasta, etc. We offer a vegetable or a fruit with every meal, but we don’t force her to eat it as per the recommendation of everyone we’ve talked to about it. We simply don’t really offer junk food as filler. She’ll get a cookie or something junky once in awhile (she’s in a wedding today, for example, and getting chicken tenders and fries, which is the kids meal), but it’s really not the norm. I think it’s so much more important to simply not offer junk as anything more than a special treat to be consumed in moderation than to force feed, which is only likely to make her hate vegetables and resent us.
Definitely nothing against your parents or anyone else - getting kids to eat stuff that’s good for them is HARD, just also trying to highlight that it’s really not that difficult to avoid giving kids junk food like 90% of the time. And I’m totally a parent that thinks that junk food has its place - just not in the way that Jess seems to rely on it.
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