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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 453439" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The fussiness over food, we went through with our two youngest. difficult child 3 and easy child 2/difficult child 2 could have been Jack Spratt and his wife - "Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean." The point being that although what they ate never matched up, between them they would eat everything.</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 would only eat things with a smooth, creamy texture. difficult child 3 would refuse to eat anything smooth and creamy.</p><p></p><p>To a certain extent I did cater to them - if I knew, for example, that a kid would want a lot of mashed potato, I'd make extra. I would also insist on everyone getting their share before any kid got seconds. Of as in our house - difficult child 3 prefers his potato not mashed, so I would remove his pieces from the pot first then mash what was left. Or if I'm cooking roast vegetables, I will roast everything, including carrot. But my girls don't like cooked carrot, so I would give them raw carrot. difficult child 3 eats carrot peelings. So when I peel the carrots, I peel them into a bowl then give him the bowl. Eating chicken - difficult child 3 will do his best to eat the bones too. </p><p></p><p>Vegetables - easy child 2/difficult child 2 was the fussiest (still is). But she will (now) make soup. </p><p></p><p>With your daughter and lettuce, there are very different flavours depending on what kind of lettuce and the colour of the leaves. easy child 2/difficult child 2 won't eat mignonette lettuce (leaves too dark, therefore too bitter for her) but also won't eat lettuce heart (too mild a taste). She will eat some cos as long as the leaves are pale. But generally it has to be iceberg.</p><p></p><p>Something we did with difficult child 3 - it was SIL1, actually, while we were on holiday overseas. He got difficult child 3 to have a taste (of course we didn't force anything we knew he didn't like) and to tell us what he liked about it and what he didn't. He did not have to eat any more if he didn't want to, but he did have to tell us his opinion, and why. That actually helped him identify his own problem foods, as well as learn that we wouldn't force him to eat something he didn't like, but we didn't want him to miss out on something potentially yummy.</p><p>His routine for a taste test - he would have a glass of some strong-tasting liquid (orange juice, for example) and take a very small bite of the sampling food. He then could, if he felt he needed to, grab a mouthful of his drink to get the taste out of his mouth. </p><p></p><p>After doing this for the three weeks we were away, difficult child 3's diet had expanded considerably. We ate out a few times, and there were even a couple of times when difficult child 3 ate the biggest meal on the menu and polished off the lot. AND had dessert. He loved the fact that he could ask the waiter to modify his meal - "I'd like fries instead of mashed potato, and please do not give me any gravy or sauce."</p><p></p><p>Any kid who complains about my cooking, gets offered the chance to do the job. But they also have to shop for the ingredients, budget for them (lobster thermidor is tasty but will blow an entire week's budget on one meal) and make sure it all happens when it should (should not be serving up dinner at 10 pm) and that it meets all tastes and dietary guidelines. NOT an easy job!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 453439, member: 1991"] The fussiness over food, we went through with our two youngest. difficult child 3 and easy child 2/difficult child 2 could have been Jack Spratt and his wife - "Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean." The point being that although what they ate never matched up, between them they would eat everything. easy child 2/difficult child 2 would only eat things with a smooth, creamy texture. difficult child 3 would refuse to eat anything smooth and creamy. To a certain extent I did cater to them - if I knew, for example, that a kid would want a lot of mashed potato, I'd make extra. I would also insist on everyone getting their share before any kid got seconds. Of as in our house - difficult child 3 prefers his potato not mashed, so I would remove his pieces from the pot first then mash what was left. Or if I'm cooking roast vegetables, I will roast everything, including carrot. But my girls don't like cooked carrot, so I would give them raw carrot. difficult child 3 eats carrot peelings. So when I peel the carrots, I peel them into a bowl then give him the bowl. Eating chicken - difficult child 3 will do his best to eat the bones too. Vegetables - easy child 2/difficult child 2 was the fussiest (still is). But she will (now) make soup. With your daughter and lettuce, there are very different flavours depending on what kind of lettuce and the colour of the leaves. easy child 2/difficult child 2 won't eat mignonette lettuce (leaves too dark, therefore too bitter for her) but also won't eat lettuce heart (too mild a taste). She will eat some cos as long as the leaves are pale. But generally it has to be iceberg. Something we did with difficult child 3 - it was SIL1, actually, while we were on holiday overseas. He got difficult child 3 to have a taste (of course we didn't force anything we knew he didn't like) and to tell us what he liked about it and what he didn't. He did not have to eat any more if he didn't want to, but he did have to tell us his opinion, and why. That actually helped him identify his own problem foods, as well as learn that we wouldn't force him to eat something he didn't like, but we didn't want him to miss out on something potentially yummy. His routine for a taste test - he would have a glass of some strong-tasting liquid (orange juice, for example) and take a very small bite of the sampling food. He then could, if he felt he needed to, grab a mouthful of his drink to get the taste out of his mouth. After doing this for the three weeks we were away, difficult child 3's diet had expanded considerably. We ate out a few times, and there were even a couple of times when difficult child 3 ate the biggest meal on the menu and polished off the lot. AND had dessert. He loved the fact that he could ask the waiter to modify his meal - "I'd like fries instead of mashed potato, and please do not give me any gravy or sauce." Any kid who complains about my cooking, gets offered the chance to do the job. But they also have to shop for the ingredients, budget for them (lobster thermidor is tasty but will blow an entire week's budget on one meal) and make sure it all happens when it should (should not be serving up dinner at 10 pm) and that it meets all tastes and dietary guidelines. NOT an easy job! Marg [/QUOTE]
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