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ChadTower:

We like fish sticks.  We make them along with a couple other things to lay out when we watch the games on Sunday.

shardian:
Serving your kids frozen dinners, or eating at McDonalds everyonce in a while is ok, but there are ALOT of parents out there who believe that kids will only eat this stuff. My Brother-in-law's kids both live off of pizza, hot dogs, chicken nuggets and fries. That is literally it. Even when we go over and grill out or something, the kids still get chicken nuggets and fries while everyone else eats steak/chicken and sides. I got one of the kids to eat a bite of a baby pickle one day and his mom actually got angry/defensive saying "HE DOESN"T LIKE THAT!"...so he changed his mind and made a nasty face after he was already liking it.

ChadTower:

My kids won't eat the steak/chicken.  They may eat the side, if it's potatoes or something with cheese.  Seriously, we have served them some of the best grilled chicken and steak.  I grill a lot.  They don't touch it.

Now, put some nuggets, or mac and cheese, and they'll eat it.  But the better stuff, the "grown up" stuff, gets left on the plate most of the time.  They will actually not eat rather than eat the steak or chicken.  The older kid is moving towards the better foods but my 5 year old will sit at the table for 3 hours rather than touch bite sized pieces of good steak.

Not all kids are like this but mine definitely are.  Especially the younger one.  My wife puts more energy into cajoling calories into that kid than she does into everything else combined.

shardian:
The framework for a kids diet is laid VERY early. Trying to change the diet/tastes of a 5 year old is a very difficult thing to do. Be vigilant. ;)

Now my other example:
My sister-in-law has two kids also. She started them very early on fruits and vegetables. Letting them play/ wallow in carrots/bananna's/apples/etc. as soon as they got to solid foods.
Those two kids will eat anything you put in front of them (now 5 and 3 years old). No joke, you can hand them a piece of raw broccoli, and down the trap it goes.


Another thing I saw one day was a lady with what appeared to be a very large 1-2 year old...maybe 18 months. They were eating at McDonalds. The lady slapped a sausage and egg biscuit down in front of him, and poured an ENTIRE can of Mountain Dew into a sippy cup for him. Wow...now that was some quality parenting. I bet that kid will be eating salads in no time.

As for myself, I was raised not being forced to eat anything. I grew up on fries/fish sticks/hot dogs...pretty much anything fried/hot just like your kids are being raised now (because they don't eat anything else). Luckily, I met my wife in high school and she has been able to change alot of my diet. I REALLY wish my parents would have fed me more diversified/healthy meals when I was a kid.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 17, 2006, 11:37:42 am ---The framework for a kids diet is laid VERY early. Trying to change the diet/tastes of a 5 year old is a very difficult thing to do. Be vigilant. ;)

Now my other example:
My sister-in-law has two kids also. She started them very early on fruits and vegetables. Letting them play/ wallow in carrots/bananna's/apples/etc. as soon as they got to solid foods.
Those two kids will eat anything you put in front of them (now 5 and 3 years old). No joke, you can hand them a piece of raw broccoli, and down the trap it goes.
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That's easy to say.  Kids have personalities.  Some are very stubborn.  Same as the spanking debate, any given method doesn't apply to all kids.  Fruit makes my older son throw up.  I've seen it quite a few times.  Bite a banana, gag, vomit.  Same with apple.  No amount of vigilance is going to make a kid eat something that makes him puke.



--- Quote ---Another thing I saw one day was a lady with what appeared to be a very large 1-2 year old...maybe 18 months. They were eating at McDonalds. The lady slapped a sausage and egg biscuit down in front of him, and poured an ENTIRE can of Mountain Dew into a sippy cup for him. Wow...now that was some quality parenting. I bet that kid will be eating salads in no time.
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Well that's an entirely different story.  That kid will be a tub if he's not already.  My kids wouldn't eat that any more than they would eat the steak.  They have their little window of food and it works for them.  One is perfectly on his target weight for his height.  The other is actually way under his weight and no matter what we put in front of him he eats as little of it as he can get away with.  That's just his personality.  Last week we were at ---smurfing--- Disneyworld, sitting at a table, waiting for him to eat his lunch so we could get on with playing around.  He wouldn't do it, not the carrot sticks, not the pizza, not the cookies, not the soda, not the chicken.  Not even to get up and go on more rides.  Some kids are just like that.



--- Quote ---As for myself, I was raised not being forced to eat anything. I grew up on fries/fish sticks/hot dogs...pretty much anything fried/hot just like your kids are being raised now (because they don't eat anything else).

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I was raised pretty much eating when I could, what I could.  That wasn't preference, that was just being hungry and not having much food around.  Didn't matter if we liked it or not, better eat while there's something to be eaten.  Makes it hard for me to manage a kid that will stare at little pieces of a perfectly grilled T bone and say he doesn't want to eat it.

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