or are other peoples' children really fussy?

[BlackBag]

Today I had a lovely, polite friend (6 years old) of DD (who's 5), round for a play, snack and lunch.

Turns out she does n't like apples, bananas or satsumas only nectarines and plums.

She does n't like water.

She got a mud splash on leg so the garden explore had to finish straight away for thorough cleaning of muddy knee and welly.

She ate only a small piece of ham and lots of all day.

She is very caring regarding my younger DD and kept calling for me and asking me to wipe little ones snot encrusted face, a battle which can be fought and generally lost every 3 minutes.

My own mostly snot free face has run through then at hearing them all laugh but also and at food & dirt stuff. I'm exhausted at the responsibility of it all. Please tell me it gets easier and my kids don't do that in your house.

That would be DD. She does indeed defy logic

Still laughing at thefirstmrsDeVeerie's splendid reaction to that dreadful child. :o

All kids have different likes and habits. It's hardly an unusual concept.

And I would never assume that a small child would know about rosemary, especially in teh context of putting some on roast potatoes. Because most people dopn't do that.

LOL They all have idiosyncracies which grate a bit. It does seem that there are lots of faddy eating children though

nice lIttlemissyhissyfangs i like it!

yes nice to revel in your own sprog who is equally at home communing with the broccoli and eating blue cheese and your all round sucessful approach to parenting.. ..

..after an afternoon of someone elses childling requesting only peeled strawberries..

Did warm to the children (brother and sister) who came to their first play date with us the other day and wolfed down all the food I made and asked for more. Then the little boy (2.5)pulled down his trousers and asked solemnly if I liked his bottom. They were very cute .

I've DD's friend for 10 years and she annoys me more than ever. At the party I mentioned previously she asked me what DDs cake was made of I said

"buttercream".

"I don't like buttercream"

ok
This was a joint party for DD and DS. DD cake was white chocolate buttercream and DSs was chocolate buttercream.

When I was cutting up DSs cake DD came to me and said

"K hasn't had any cake"
"she doesn't like buttercream"

"she likes DS's cake she has had it before"

This was after she was the only child on the raft not to get wet and had screamed everytime someone unintentionally splashed her. I was so surprised she wasn't pushed in. The instructer was worried about her and wanted to pull the raft in spoiling it for everyone else, so I said just ignore her she is a drama queen.

Last week she had her HPV and had to go home because it hurt so much.

I do like her in many ways but she annoys me, needing to be centre of attention all the time.
She will only drink coke, doesn't like chocolate (except chocolate buttercream, it seems) there is very little food that she admits to liking, even carrots I cooked for her were wrong, although her nan said she eats carrots.

kid at my house,asked the mum what to cook
"nothing of colour,no sauce,no gravy,no bits,no bread,no pasta,no fish,no mushroom,no vegetable"

mine are bins who eat anything

i said its fish fingers or nowt! she ate fishfingers

I do the plain pasta and separate sauce trick. I then wave a child home that has only ate plain pasta after 4 hours of running around like a mad thing.

I also don't give pudding to a child who hasn't eaten anything. Cos only children who eat good food get a pudding. I also said once to a child ?Oh get over yourself it only food whats the matter with you.? When they refused something I would consider bog standard. (much to my shame) when they leave I then berate my children saying what sort of weird child doesn?t like the gorgeous food that you like, Don?t you ever refuse food at someone?s house try it and leave it. Don?t say I don?t like.

I just know they will go on to try every drug possible as they have indoctrinated by me to try everything once but what the heck. It annoys me so much when some child thinks that they can say I don?t like it when they haven?t even tried it.
It just rude

I have one of those fussy buggers children. DD - eats anything except peas. DS1 - Eats everything except rhubarb. DS2 - aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh! Even the SCHOOL have asked me to send him in with juice, in defiance of their own rules...because in the summer when I was sending him in with water (knowing full well he wouldn't drink it but following rules), he was becoming obviously dehydrated. He has NEVER drunk plain water. Despite my other 2 being quite happy to, in fact DD doesn't even like juice. DS2 will actually go without to the point of having a hospital admission through dehydrastion when I tried to be mean mummy. . He is that stubborn over not drinking water.

And he's bloody awful about food as well. TBH I hold no prisoners with that, and he eats what everyone else is eating or goes hungry till breakfast, but I can see how it would worry another parent if he went round there for tea!

My dd's eat EVERTHING, in fact i am always being told that the 'eat well', which is another way of saying that they are greedy little gits. If they go on playdates or go to birthday parties, i tend to feed them before they go .

All kids are fussy in one way or another. You just get used to the weirdness of your own.

We've had neice (4) and nephew (10) round for tea loads this week and I was sooooo pleased by how unfussy either of them were over dinner :)

They both ate pretty much everything we gave them, the only thing nephew didn't want was icecream and apple pie

Tho when asked what she wanted on her pizza DN (4) said dougnuts :o

I think they're all a bit odd, and therefore I presume mine are a bit odd at other peoples houses.

I always ask the parents what the children like to eat before having them over. And my friends ask me what mine like. I thought this was the normal approach!

All kids are odd, including yours

All children are fussy about something.

I have 3, DD1 will eat just about everything although isn't keen on all fruits. Loves veg.

DS - will eat but likes his food plain, doesn't like sauces, spices etc

DD2 - will eat anything! Favourite food is sushi and olives. She's only 21 months.

DS isn't fussy, he just doesn't eat. At all.

I've had to tell the school not to worry about lunchtimes and I dread him going to someone elses for dinner.

However, children are all odd, we only love our own because they share our oddities are genetically linked :o

And DS is a major pain in the backside when it comes to putting his socks on - they HAVE to be right, and this can sometimes take a while.

I was raging to my mother about this only to be delightfully reminded that I was the same as a child, oh how she laughed..

I used to love children, thought they were all entertaing, cute etc.

I always thought my aunt was odd for saying that the only children she could stand were her own...

2dcs later i would agree, i just don't get other children.

We've had a steady supply of little friends to play over the years who don't like all manner of things.

I used to worry handing back the barely fed to their collecting mums. Now I don't bat an eyelid. I just say that they didn't eat much tea. Within reason I try to accommodate likes and dislikes and make enquiries about all that before they come, but if they don't want it on the day what can you do? Just don't be too amitious about what you are offering. I leave battles over broccoli to their own mums.

I am surprised at some table manners I've witnessed, but mostly they're ok. It's always a relief when they go home though.

Now the pressure is on to get into the realms of the 'sleepover'. Who invented them I'd like to know?? You have to keep that patient, gritted-teeth grin going for hours longer - even at 2am when they won't go to feckin sleep.

All the kids who "don't eat vegetables" annoy me. Fair enough if they don't like broccoli, peas, whatever, but a blanket ban on vegetables? .

Oh and as for the one who ate her chips and baked beans with her fingers... [shocked]. She was about 8 I think. Didn't know quite what to say to that!

colditz

British grown berries?

Serously that is fussy!

imagining a really poncy 3 year old saying no I only eat British berries thank you, I can't be doing with that imported rubbish.