to be annoyed and upset at the way I've been flamed

[JessemyParkson]

on this thread?

Definitely Constance.
JParkson Pleeease come back as WoofToYouLady before anyone else nicks it.

JParkson: don't become WoofLady. Please don't. You will be making a pact with the devil if you go along with the school bullies.

i was so tempted to nab it earlier, but seeing as she's been such a brick about it all, it would be ungentlewomanly of me i fear.

Oh hooray. Someone with manners at last.

arf

oh i DO hope that's you.

Having nosed around active convos I read the title of this and a bit of the linked thread and was just about to come on and post a big 'what the FUCK is wrong with MN tonight???' rant, but ...

... everything is right with MN

'WOOF to you too lady!' - I think I shall say it to my elderly cat instead of making moo-cow noises at her.

Oh Hooray, WoofToYouLady Someone with a sense of humour

I just read the thread which is quite interesting as DS2 is a very fussy eater and I posted a similar thread.

I don't think you were flamed at all, and I agree with the posters who think its not a good idea that your DD has to clear her plate before getting the yoghurt. Babies of that age don't understand this level of cause and effect. And even if she did understand, consider this my DD is 7 and it came up in conversation that she would fill up with pasta she's not hungry for just to get the dessert. Not a good habit to encourage.

My DS2 is 16 months, eats milk, dry finger food (crackers, rice cakes, breadsticks, some of the sweet cereals) and purees containing fruit or sweet potato/butternut squash (and meat etc), and yoghurt. And thats it. I wish he ate as well as your child.

If I haven't been able to get enough food into him at a meal (our food pots contain roughly 100g) then he gets a yoghurt. Or firstly I'll try to mix the yoghurt with the puree. Or one spoon yoghurt one spoon puree etc. Or if he finishes the food and still appears hungry he'll have the yoghurt.

I think the answer is not to give the crap as desert on a regular basis full stop then you don't have the situation of them developing a sweet tooth and refusing proper food or cramming themselves full to get the dessert. I don't really see the need to have a dessert at every meal either.

Yet another person coarsened by MN. Oh joy. Unless someone else has nicked the Woof nickname...

WhiffofB, if you think this is coarse then [fill in blanks]

HELLO jessamy! havent seen you in a while....you are officially the worlds worst flouncer

Woof.

I think the person was rude, but not aggressive. If it really bothers you report it, but she was not that bad.

What is cc ( feel like an idiot having to ask)

I'm loving woof to you lady

Brilliant

Ooh, am I being flamed by WoofToYouTooLady? Thanks. I will have to start a thread about it.

Controlled Crying.

The perfect cure for a hungry baby.

Nanny0gg the OP has admitted she was wrong and has had the good grace to come back to the thread so how about offering some solutions instead of criticisms?
OP good on you for returning - when I look back on some of the decisions I made when DC was just a few months old because I was so worried about making a rod for my own back I am, well
Children don't come with a manual - we're not all blessed with a natural instinct and MN is a good place to learn alternative methods.

Haha, someone beat me to it! (as I've said before, I'm not the quickest out of the blocks!)

Didn't really help that DH came home the house needed cleaning, so I had to leave for the night

Hi, how's DS?! hope you're all ok! :) And yep, I admit it, I flunked Flouncing 1 oh 1 at school lol

Oh, thank you...this thread has made my day!!

I love the fact you deleted your account but then couldn't get it up again as it were.
It is the sort of thing I would do.
We have all done awful things as parents...I give you my dh cutting the head of ds's cuddly in front of him, when on holiday years ago. a bad parenting decision.
Great thread.

not by me whiff

forever, it's not the range of foods for DD that I worry about. I don't even worry, actually, it's just I can't think of a more appropriate term. But I don't want to teach her that by refusing one thing, she'll automatically be given something else instead. Surely I'm not the only person out there who cannot afford refuses to cook meal after meal after meal, until I hit upon something my child will eat?!

Maybe having finger foods like the breadsticks are a good idea for lunches but certainly at tea time, I'd like her to eat what we eat.

FWIW, last night she had some chicken, gnocchi and baked beans. She started off well, then put the brakes on and started messing around again. So I ignored her and started on my dinner. She did eat everything. I merely put a few pieces on the table in front of her, and then carried on with my dinner. She would put a piece in her mouth, spit it back into her hand, examine it, then eat it properly. Granted, a couple of bits ended up on the floor, but hey, that happens.

But when it's the whole lot, piece by piece, going in her mouth, then into her hand, being scrunched into oblivion, and then ending up in doggy's tummy, then I object.

On a final note, ok, clearing her plate is a bad thing. I get it. (but why?! I was taught as a child to clear my plate if I liked it or not!) But AIBU to teach her to have a good go at her dinner? If I don't start it now, when do I start it?! When she's 1? 2? 6? 16?