Every child loves pasta so....

[DaddyCool]

Annabelle Karmel my arse.

If I buy/borrow another book that tells me stupid crap like this, i'm going to lose it.

Every single book on parenting, food, sleep behaviour, I have bought or borrowed from the Library, is either just incorrect or common sense parenting disguised as a some sort of new revelation.

every child does not love pasta. my child won't eat it. every child does not love orange juice squirted onto everything...

and regarding the sleep books.... I'm sick of reading books from some sort of white-teethed cheesy american spouting simple common sense like it's some sort of revalation.

chapters include:

1. why sleep is important for your child (no shit sherlock)

2. why your child should get a balanced diet (ditto)

3. before bed routines (f**king common sense - relaxing atmosphere, bath, story... FFS who doesn't know that!!)

i'm really getting pissed off

Gave up reading books when I came upon this passage in a Miriam Stoppard book.

"In a new born baby the genitals are bigger than the rest of the body"

So size does matter.

yup, 2.5.

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Veg is normal for toddlers - i continue to stick veg on DD's plate even though she doesnt touch it.

Its frustrating but he sounds like he is eating enough healthy stuff if not tremendously varied.

What about cheese?

Id just keep putting stuff on his plate he doesnt like and ignoring the "i dont like" etc.

(says the woman who cant get DS to eat much except jar food.........)

he won't eat eggy bread but saying that, i haven't tried him on it for a long long while.

he eats pancakes (the thick american style ones) with me on the weekends. I make them with very little sugar and rubbish and he seems to like them as well.

I can proudly boast that I have never ever read a single book on parenting, pregnancy, etc.

My pal bought me a Dr. Sears book when I was pregnant w/DD1. I sold that f*cker on Ebay and had a manicure instead. I felt much more relaxed about parenting afterwards.

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tried the gross food thing. call things mangled monkey meat and bat barf but it seems to put him off and DW told me to stop doing it! LOL.

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yup. he won't eat yorkshires. not even plain. he's so fickle. it's very frustrating.

God im slow here today.

All excellent suggestions from cod.

(cod, might need to pick your brains later about DS........ )

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I know its us. Its always about the parents. I think we used to pressure him too much to eat foods that he's developed a little bit of a phobia but we've layed off big time for the past year and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.

Daddy Cool - there is light at the end of the tunnel - my DD 3.8yo has never been great with food and has just started eating pasta at home - but only linguine and only with tomato puree - no sauces! She dosn't eat rice (only uncooked, makes me shudder to hear her crunching it) or potatoes (only the waffles, chips, smiley faces variety) or sandwiches. However at a friends house, sitting with 8 other children (not all hers!) I have seen her eat tuna pasta bake, beef stew with rice, mash with gravy, lasagne, baby corn, sugarsnap peas. The list goes on. I now introduce one new meal a week, saying my friend cooked it and brought it round (!) and guess what she eats it.....

Also we have a little mouse that comes and pinches food off her plate when I am not looking, particularly if I am trying to count how many carrots/peas/sausages etc she has left. this can get quite tedious as you have to play the game EXACTLY the same each time, but cripes it gets the food down her. Entire sliced bananas disappear without trace....We've also started eating together as much as possible so that we aren't sitting there staring at her willing it to go down.

Personally, I think Annabel Karmel should go boil her own bum!

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Sorry, I've got to go...

No inlaws except his grandmother who fusses and farts over him even more than we do. he'll eat bugger all at her place.

She's like that beeotch who founded 'The White Company' - Ahhh, yah, dahlin', I have four kids and my house is all white.

Yeah, but I'll bet your army of nannies and cleaners spit in your tea.

And IMO it dont hurt to add a bit of sugar here and there if you are really struggling because you can always slowly cut it out once they start eating whatever it is.

Am adding double cream to most things for DS at the moment.......

Once I relaxed and stopped getting so up tight about it all, things definately improved. Very emotive subject, food.

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yes, suger isn't the enemy for us. it doesn't turn him weird and he doesn't seem to abuse it.

I put maple syrup on his pancakes (i'm such a canadian hillbilly half-wit) and he likes it.

DC - can you get him to watch Wallace and Grommit? SInce then ds1 could happily live on cheese and crackers!!! he wouldn't touch cheese with a bargepole before

Otherwise I have to say - your ds's diet really doesn't sound that awful and it's soooooo common for them to have a narrow range of things like that! Mine are exactly the same. They don't eat much veg but loads of fruit so I guess the veg doesn't matter tooooo much. The only veg they eat is peas and just recently I've managed to get them to eat carrots. that's it.

Honestly - I know how you feel, I get so frustrated serving up the same thing and feel like a crap mother sometimes, but their diet does cover all teh food groups and is pretty healthy so I guess we just keep plodding on. I think your ds is still little, no? Ds1 was honestly hell to feed but in the last 6 months or so, since he was 4.5 maybe, he's really starting to try new things.

The key is not to get stressed! Har har har!

LOL - not just me thinking that post was wierd then!

Whats his fav tv/film/toy characters?