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Originally Posted by widebody911
My parents handled this differently:
* They put food on the table, I ate it.
* If I didn't want to eat it, I didn't leave the table
* I didn't get to make requests
* I didn't get to peruse a menu
* I didn't get to send it back if I didn't like it
* I didn't get any say in the menu until I was old enough to do the cooking myself.
I'm not a parent, so you can take this with a big grain of table salt, but you're setting this kid up to be a spoiled brat.
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This, except I was always welcome to go hungry - but just had to stay at the table until the family was done.
We have never had to get quite that strict with our girl since we didn't have major problems, but it is the approach we went with and now we have an adventuresome and agreeable little eater at 7 yrs. Now she gets flexibility since she doesn't cause static. About the only rule now is that she can't turn up her nose at stuff until she's had a bite of it first. Most of the time she ends up liking it.
Last night she ate pad thai and a piece of spider roll.