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- From: tbachman@hamline.edu. (Toni Bachmann)
- Subject: Re: RECIPES NEEDED FOR FUSSY EATERS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.133347.10578@uc.msc.edu>
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- Organization: Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. [The Little U]
- References: <9147@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <C18Eq5.1CH@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:33:47 GMT
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- In article <C18Eq5.1CH@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> brett@sr.hp.com () writes:
- >Nancy M. Schnepp (ns@bohr.physics.purdue.edu) wrote:
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- >I realize this may sound a bit cold, but is there anything wrong with giving
- >them what everyone else is having and if they don't want it they go hungry?
- >
- This is WONDERFUL advice. I have a picky 6 year old and finally after giving
- him what he wanted all the time decided to stop. I dish up his plate with an
- appropriate serving size (compared to my other two kids 7 and 9) and put it on
- the table. If he doesn't eat it all, he gets nothing in the way of snacks or
- treats until it is gone. I generally also *do* heat it up in the microwave
- for his lunch the next day or for the next days dinner (not breakfast). It
- took him three days to finish that first plate of food! Now that he "believes"
- me to be serious, he finishes it the first time (because he missed his fav
- favorite one night I suppose) - and unbelievably he even asks for seconds
- sometimes. Three days of feeling guilty that he may be hungry was well
- worth the pain I felt - he is not picky anymore - if he doesn't particularly
- like something he eats what he's given, doesn't ask for seconds and knows
- he'll get a treat later to "wash away the icky taste".
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- Toni
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