ungrateful little ..........

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...hmmmm.my ds and dd1 are starting to get to me at mealtimes.dp does all the cooking and cooks healthy meals for them every night,but they always complain about something,dd1 won't eat red meat(she is only 7) and if they don't like something they are very rude to dp about it.they used to moan at me before dp moved in,as im not a very good cook and used to do mainly frozen stuff,but they wanted healthy food.
dp just says 'u get what ur given and if u don't like it do without',which is what my mum used to say to me,but i would never have dared tell her i didnt like something!
ds2 is only 3 and eats whatever he is given,and if he doesnt like something or is full up he just leaves it on the plate and says nothing.
why cant the other 2 be like that??!!

Don't stress it, they're just flexing their little muscles and rebelling a bit...
Sounds like he's got the right idea. Perhaps they could help out with the cooking a bit, suggest their own ideas for menus for the week?

dd wanted spag bol without tomatoes onions and mushrooms today - oh and no meat.....
so i gave her a plate of spaghetti
whatever i cook is never as good as daddys and i got so stressed out with all their ungratefulness the other day that i threw a spoon across the kitchen. unfortunately it bounced off dd head by mistake on the way....aaaaargh!!!!11

sallyrosie-he tried that at the start,getting them to help,asking them what their favourite scholl dinners were etc.he came up with a menu of things they all like,but they still complain(not the right type of sausages,i dont like chicken with bones in etc etc)so he just gives them it and leaves them to it.
trouble is im starting to sound like my mum,coming out with the old 'there are children starving in the world who would give anything for a decent meal' and 'in my day we had to clear our plates whether we liked the food or not'

I can't cope with whingeing and rudeness at table. If DS1 says "that's disgusting" or similar, he gets sent down from the table. He's allowed to not like things, he's allowed to pick things out, but he's not allowed to fuss. He's still not perfect (by any means) but at least he knows that excessive fuss means no food at all.

Ignore, ignore, ingnore.

My 4 yr old is just the same - mock tears on arrival at dinner table and vocal whining about the food. I just feign complete nonchalence and say - "Whatever, leave it if you want to but there is nothing else".

Sometimes she eats it and sometimes she doesn't, but anyway - if she doesn't, I console myself that at least dh, ds and I have enjoyed the dinner that I prepared.

doesnt it make u feel better when you know that everyone else is going thro the same?!