by Tdarcos » Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:14 pm
Flack wrote:My son (9) will only eat a few foods, and on some days, he won't even eat those. He's one of those kids that wants a corn dog when we go to a Mexican restaurant. My daughter (5) will eat just about anything (she recently tried sushi with wasabi).
For finiky eaters, you have to try to encourage them to try new things. Bribery may be useful. You give very small portions, enough to taste, you tell them to try it, if they don't like it they don't have to eat it.
Another way is to make something for yourself alone, and refuse to share it, and make them ask for some. If they don't, you've had an undisturbed meal. If they do, you've gotten them to try something.
Next time they beg for something is the time you use to blackmail the finicky eater. You buy it, you don't open it, you tell them that you're going to fix something at home, they have to eat all of it, they don't, then you take the item back and they don't get it.
I mean, I eat liver and onions; cabbage soup; broccoli (either with butter or with cheese); sauerkraut on hot dogs (this is the same as cabbage); and several other things because my mother didn't tell me they tasted bad, she just had me try them and if I didn't like them I didn't have to eat them.
I also like one thing my mother could not stand, after I saw it in a restaurant at a Kresge's (that's how far back it was), she didn't like it and thought I might not: a liverwurst sandwich. I tried it and I liked it. I think I was about 10 at the time which would have made it around 1971.
I don't like Vienna sausages (tried around 1995) and I don't like collard greens (tried 2008).
[quote="Flack"]My son (9) will only eat a few foods, and on some days, he won't even eat those. He's one of those kids that wants a corn dog when we go to a Mexican restaurant. My daughter (5) will eat just about anything (she recently tried sushi with wasabi).[/quote]
For finiky eaters, you have to try to encourage them to try new things. Bribery may be useful. You give very small portions, enough to taste, you tell them to try it, if they don't like it they don't have to eat it.
Another way is to make something for yourself alone, and refuse to share it, and make them ask for some. If they don't, you've had an undisturbed meal. If they do, you've gotten them to try something.
Next time they beg for something is the time you use to blackmail the finicky eater. You buy it, you don't open it, you tell them that you're going to fix something at home, they have to eat all of it, they don't, then you take the item back and they don't get it.
I mean, I eat liver and onions; cabbage soup; broccoli (either with butter or with cheese); sauerkraut on hot dogs (this is the same as cabbage); and several other things because my mother didn't tell me they tasted bad, she just had me try them and if I didn't like them I didn't have to eat them.
I also like one thing my mother could not stand, after I saw it in a restaurant at a Kresge's (that's how far back it was), she didn't like it and thought I might not: a liverwurst sandwich. I tried it and I liked it. I think I was about 10 at the time which would have made it around 1971.
I don't like Vienna sausages (tried around 1995) and I don't like collard greens (tried 2008).