DD (6yo) is so fussy with food at the moment and it's driving me nuts and becoming very disruptive to the family. Today at lunch I gave her some cold, mixed beans and she refused them. I said I wasn't prepared to put up with fussiness any more and that as she's happy to eat beans when they're warm (ie. kidney beans in chilli, baked beans etc.) then she can quite easily eat them cold too and that she had to sit there until she'd done so. Well the stubborn little minx has been sitting there for almost 3 hours and has just fallen asleep!! So what the hell do I do now?!
The problem is, I'm not entirely sure that I was right to do this (I hate the idea of forcing a child to eat but I'm sure she's being fussy and that she could eat them if she tried). And what if she really can't stand them cold but can eat them hot - maybe that was unfair of me. But we are having so many power struggles lately and she nearly always weine (I know, I know, that's another issue). I just can't let her win another one or she will never learn that I'm supposed to be in charge! She says she's gonig to sit there until bedtime but what about when it gets to tea time - do I not give her any tea until she eats them? What if she stays there until bedtime, what do I do then?!
Oh lordy, I'm completely stumped with this one.