I hate to comment on others parenting, BUT...

[BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability]

I've just seen a post on facebook saying that someone is proud that their 6 week old baby has just eaten a whole jar of puree...

Has anyone else seen examples of interesting parenting first hand that they thought were the stuff of MN myth? I honestly didnt think that people this, ahem, naive existed!

Shirley - I've been told that children may reject a food up to 15 times before sometimes accepting it. I'm one of the few parents I know who continues to offer food and encourage my children to have small tastes in the face of repeated and sometimes vehement rejection - I can't tell you how much of their food I've eaten myself thrown away over the years.

But the reward in my case is that my children now eat a more varied diet than almost all their friends. My friends I know only cook food they are reasonably assured their kids will eat - I understand this: pressure of family life and concern about expense and waste.

Well, yes, thanks for stating the bleeding obvious.

My argument on this thread is not one of "give 'em pot noodles!" FGS.

My argument here is that if your child eats fruit/veg/blah/blah/healthy options/blah/water then that doesn't mean that your experience with your child extends across humanity and that every child should eat the same foodstuff and drink the same drink as yours do...because you're a better parent.

"Clearly children in countries where food is scarce only getting meals when food is available and choice is limited....... they do not appear to be faddy with food. Why do you think this is?"

I'm still interested in this quote BTW. You know, as your a HCP? I find this slightly hinky.

Sorry, I'm getting confused follow this thread. WHO is the HCP?

I was out shopping and saw a young mum on her phone, pushing buggy but toddler was toddling along beside. Mum wasn't watching what toddler was doing and she pushed buggy into toddler way causing her to trip. The mum kicked the toddler actually booted her and started f-ing and blinding at her for being a "stuid little C" and getting in her way.

A delightful neighbour of mine can often be heard shouting at her SEN child of about 8 "Come on then, do you wanna f-ing fight?! I'll f-ing knock the S* out of you" and other such heart-warming remarks

Both true stories

my 'quote' is that many children survive on purely rice which many children here would not eat (my own turn their nose up at it, despite repeated attempts with it) However, I refuse to stop giving it and they have to try it every time it is offered. Although I hasten to add I have similar experience to spud inso far as the friends who parent similarly to me have similarly children who eat a wide variety of foods. Rice is one of the few things dd1 doesn't eat and she still has to try it and is getting better i.e. from point blank refusal to now having a few mouthfuls. This is because we didn't give it during weaning tbh.

Oh and I also have plenty of friends with similar ideas to you Shirley and who also have children who they cook different meals for because they don't eat the same things .......... IMO no, no and no way would I put up with that!

Absolutely shirleyknot
In the countries where food is limited and not plentiful, kids probably exist on healthier staff, then our children, children of the "developed western world"
Also in the countries where there is a very strong tradition of good cuisine (Italy, Spain, France etc.), and a tradition of cooking absolutely everything from a scratch, those children tend to have a healthier diets.
These children are seldom ever indulged, are waned from a babies on a good home cooked wholesome staff.
My personal opinion and only that, cooking is the key, no different kids foods, everybody sits at the table at tea time and gets fresh, simple, wholesome food.

The keep trying debate brings me back to when dd1 was tiny.
HV told me to top-up bf with a ff bottle. Dd1 projectile vomited all over the room. (seriously she even got it on the ceiling . )
Should I have persevered 15 times?

Getting the kids involved in the cooking helps too if they are old enough, but no doubt that will upset someone too whose child has a kitchen phobia.

Sigh.

rhondajean

what exactly is your problem?

Oh dear.

The thing is captain, your quote

"Clearly children in countries where food is scarce only getting meals when food is available and choice is limited....... they do not appear to be faddy with food. Why do you think this is?"

is clearly about children who are starving. Or close to starving. Or maybe just absolutely hungry all the time.

I really don't think this is appropriate. You know? To compare children who are dying of starvation or just simply very hungry with the children of the posters on this thread who have problems "making" their children eat vegetables and fruit.

It's a bit unsettling if you're a HV. You might need to revisit your training

Nothing, my kids eat brilliantly, yours?

yeah they have mars bars for breakfast

They also have manners and are not rude for the the sake of it ,yours?

Leave it, she aint worf it!

Also - look at the remarks - they stand alone in a sea of normal...rocks of madness and self importance.

and relax

Finally Shirley you seem to understand what I am saying If they are hungry then they will eat!

PS I didn't actually refer to places where children are starving to death, clearly that would be inappropriate and is actually only how you have interpreted it. I said where food is scarce (but available in limited forms) i.e. no homepride sauces, ready meals, macdonalds etc.

No cheese string, no fruitshoot, no crisp, no coke, let them go really hungry.
Pour the stew in the ball, give a large crust of bread in the hand, and prepare to be amazed

how vile, you can't possibly be saying that as a HV?

It contravenes a number of practices!

Best be careful captain You never know who you're talking to.

Bowl

"If they are hungry then they will eat!"

sorry, whoops left this off my last post!

what is vile? It is human nature and biology! We are programmed to eat if we are hungry and very young children are unable to over ride this drive as we adults can. I don't see how that is vile. It is stating the very obvious imo

"If they are hungry then they will eat!"

Please go bak and and have another look at your training.

Do you think our own parents are as fussy as our children are today? No! Why? Because they had to eat from a ration book! Rarely had anything as a treat. Most adults of my parents generation eat veg/fruit/meat (unless vegetarian). Is that a less vile example?

I'm shocked at your attitude TBH.

I also question your training.

If you think it is reasonable to be questioning the eating habits of this generation compared to those DURING THE WAR then you need an update, and pretty damn quick.

Have you any idea of the damage you're doing?

I am reporting your posts as untruthful.