DD being made to eat?

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My daughter is 5 and has never had a problem eating, she's a perfect weight but like all kids knows what she does and doesn't like. She's been back at school for two days and both times come back and innocently said 'I ate fish fingers today, miss ** said I can't leave the table till they're gone'. She hates fish fingers and she said she really didn't enjoy eating them, I'm feeling a little livid right now that a teacher (who I assume to be new as I haven't heard the name before) is telling the children they can't get up until they've eaten?! If my child doesn't want to eat something then no one should be force bloody feeding her. Anyone else had this? How would you approach it?

I remember at our junior school that we weren't allowed to leave anything in our lunch boxes and we couldn't leave the canteen until we had eaten everything.

Once I got caught trying to throw a satsuma away, for the rest of the week I was given 30 minutes to eat my lunch (all of it) and then I had to stand in the corner of the canteen for the other 30 minutes.

@TittyGolightly I can assure you that my DS is healthy and slim. He simply isn't given the opportunity to reject whatever food he wishes to. Which actually is a cause of obesity. Never met a fussy eater who rejects fast food and will only ever eat kale and avocado.

So I paid £2.50 a day for a meal she wouldn’t eat and had to bring a packed lunch for her to eat at 3:30pm
That is insane!!

I thought the current obesity issue was to do with all the cheap calorie-loaded processed/fast food that is now so freely available.

If you decide how much a child should eat by dishing it up for them, it is more than likely that you will give them too much.

If you then force them to eat it all anyway they will effectively learn to ignore their body’s “full” signals, and set a pattern of overeating it will be hard/impossible to break.

Never met a fussy eater who rejects fast food and will only ever eat kale and avocado.

My daughter is a little bit fussy (see above re mash, gravy and custard) but dislikes junk food. She won’t eat chicken nuggets etc. She’d eat her own body weight in veggies though.

I thought the current obesity issue was to do with all the cheap calorie-loaded processed/fast food that is now so freely available

That’s also part of it. The school dinner menu here is shocking. Everything is processed and frozen.