Mummyoflittledragon
I'm not at all sure you even read the majority of my post.
And good for you faithin that you'd wolf down shepherds pie. You're not 9, are you?
No, now I am not nine. But at nine, I would still have wolfed it down. Additionally, I acknowledged that was my personal preference, and that it was beside the point and unhelpful. To pick the point I labeled unhelpful, and use it to decide my whole post is unhelpful, tells me you didn't bother with much of the rest.
The child's behaviour was atrocious, yes. But we cannot assume children will eat stuff just because we like it or decree all children like certain foods.
Nobody asked the child to like it. We just expect her not to be a rude little madam about it.
I think the food eating is a red herring as some children just are fussy and those, who are lucky not to have fussy eaters just don't get it.
OP asked this child's mother what she eats, and was told Shepherd's Pie was fine. It isn't as if she put a plate of poo with pickle in front of the child.
I'm starting to find this thread more and more distasteful as people muscle with their comments on a 9 yr old little, prepubescent child, who sadly hasn't been taught better.
You can unclench that fist of yours from around your pearls. We are venting on the internet. When OP or one of us seeks this child out to tell her to her face some or all of what has transpired here, then you can resume clutching.
It isn't her fault her parenting is shit.
No, it's not. But that doesn't mean OP and everyone else who comes into contact with this child has to just put up with the bad behavior. That's why OP should tell the mother. Then she's done all she can, hasn't she?
Whatever happened to it take a village mentality?
It died out around about the same time that "Don't tell my kid what to do, you nosy old cow, I'm her mother, not you" and variations on the theme, came into vogue.