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How do you stop toddlers from trying to force food on you!?

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Purplehighlighters · 14/09/2022 18:09

Hiding from my 2 year old who is trying to force feed me biscuits … help!

Seriously, how do you discourage this?

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SilverGlassHare · 14/09/2022 18:10

I used to pretend to eat it. ‘Mmm YUMMY, thank you darling. Now you eat the rest, mummy doesn’t want to steal all of your lovely biscuit!’

MolliciousIntent · 14/09/2022 18:14

"no thank you sweetie, I'm not hungry. That's very kind of you though"

/I just ate the biscuits and bought bigger jeans.

johnd2 · 14/09/2022 18:26

I'd Start with
No thanks
Then I don't want it then
Put it down on the plate
Then
I don't want it in my face
Then physically move it away.
Then say I'll take all the biscuits pack away if you put it in my face again.
Then put the biscuits away.

Never say anything to them you aren't happy to have said back, but the basic boundary is they decide what to offer, and you decide whether to eat. You can mention that if you think they will understand.

If you try to force them to eat what you provide them then they will try the same with you, so avoid that!
Good luck.

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