to think that children mirror their parents' eating habits?

[PiaThreeTimes]

I have friends with toddlers who are always complaining that their children won't eat properly. All, without exception, eat separately, i.e. the DC have their meals, and the parents eat when the DC are in bed. They also eat different foods.

A couple of these people complain their DC will only eat biscuits and crisps. Of course I'm FAR from being a perfect mum (even a halfway-decent mum on many days!), but I wonder why the DC are offered biscuits and crisps (particularly crisps), especially when they refuse to eat a proper meal.

Surely it makes sense to all eat the same thing at the same time, when possible. Doesn't this mean that the DC will have good role models when it comes to eating?

AIBU or just totally naive?!

I don't agree entirely with you op.

i thought this thread was goung to be about overweight kids having overweight parents.

Regads the eating habits I put veg on all my kids plates, both myself and dh love veg. My ds laps it up, my dd1 after 14 years has finally succumbed to SOME types of veg, my dd2 leaves all veg except sweetcorn and peas. My ds will then ask if he can have the left over veg. We always eat together and meals are cooked mostly, from scratch so your theory is wrong.

juuule complete with harness to dangle an inch from the kitchen floor!

Norfolk :o Amazing

Weekends we all eat our meals together.
The 2 days where DP is working and I'm a SAHM, I eat my lunch with DD but my dinner with DP after DD (3yrs) has gone to bed.
The 3 days that I go out to work, DD eats her meals at nursery and I eat my dinner with DP after DD gone to bed.
I suppose we could all eat our dinner together weekdays as soon as DP gets through the door, but that would mean DD sits like a loner while her nursery chums eat their meals and when she comes home it'll be a rush to cook, eat then straight to bed. No time for family playing or reading.
DD is a good eater, but like many children, has her 'I don't like cheese' moments when she's been a cheese fiend all her life.
I'm not naive enough to expect that we'll always have plain sailing when it comes to meal times and DD eating what we expect her to. But its a compromise that works for us at the mo.