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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 548786" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I also think it is very bad idea to make fight out of food issues. You simply can't make someone to eat, so if kid really wants to win the battle over food, they will anyway. better not to go there. Of course one doesn't have to make it too easy to be picky or to choose unhealthy options. I do like DDD's rules a lot.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child was difficult with the food already as a baby so I was quite strict what his options were. I think he was almost four before he for example tasted candy or french fries. I let him be picky but he didn't even know the options I didn't want him to have existed. So even if his diet was limited, what he did eat was nutritional and healthy. It was mostly sensory for him so changing texture of the food often helped. Blender was used a lot in our household at the time, LOL. </p><p></p><p>easy child has never really been picky, there are few things he doesn't particularly like but can eat also those. But still I have always made a point that for Holidays and other 'big dinners' there is always something for everyone what they do enjoy. Luckily around here it is a tradition that Holiday meals etc. are made of several, often very different, dishes so it is easy to just make traditional ones and few extra that are favourites of those not liking the traditional options. I simply refuse to ruin my Holidays fighting over something so trivial as food. There are quite limited number of those big holidays while kids are young, I wanted to much more try to make good and loving life long memories out of them for my kids than battles over if they really have to try stockfish.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays difficult child is normally not picky at all. He likes to try new things and likes also strong flavours. And he is very used to eating also things he may not enjoy that much (he needs a lot of food and he often has to just eat what is available.) Though he still holds to the principle that anything is eatable if you just mix enough ketchup with it. He does backslide while anxious though and eating can become an issue. It is same as his other sensory issues. If relaxed, there really isn't many of them, if anxious they do rear their head. Ketchup helps, but if his anxiety is really bad he looses his appetite and after that simply can't eat things that feel bad. I think his ketchup consumption could make a good measurement for the anxiety...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 548786, member: 14557"] I also think it is very bad idea to make fight out of food issues. You simply can't make someone to eat, so if kid really wants to win the battle over food, they will anyway. better not to go there. Of course one doesn't have to make it too easy to be picky or to choose unhealthy options. I do like DDD's rules a lot. My difficult child was difficult with the food already as a baby so I was quite strict what his options were. I think he was almost four before he for example tasted candy or french fries. I let him be picky but he didn't even know the options I didn't want him to have existed. So even if his diet was limited, what he did eat was nutritional and healthy. It was mostly sensory for him so changing texture of the food often helped. Blender was used a lot in our household at the time, LOL. easy child has never really been picky, there are few things he doesn't particularly like but can eat also those. But still I have always made a point that for Holidays and other 'big dinners' there is always something for everyone what they do enjoy. Luckily around here it is a tradition that Holiday meals etc. are made of several, often very different, dishes so it is easy to just make traditional ones and few extra that are favourites of those not liking the traditional options. I simply refuse to ruin my Holidays fighting over something so trivial as food. There are quite limited number of those big holidays while kids are young, I wanted to much more try to make good and loving life long memories out of them for my kids than battles over if they really have to try stockfish. Nowadays difficult child is normally not picky at all. He likes to try new things and likes also strong flavours. And he is very used to eating also things he may not enjoy that much (he needs a lot of food and he often has to just eat what is available.) Though he still holds to the principle that anything is eatable if you just mix enough ketchup with it. He does backslide while anxious though and eating can become an issue. It is same as his other sensory issues. If relaxed, there really isn't many of them, if anxious they do rear their head. Ketchup helps, but if his anxiety is really bad he looses his appetite and after that simply can't eat things that feel bad. I think his ketchup consumption could make a good measurement for the anxiety... [/QUOTE]
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