SC - Re: Kids Games was "Kids and feasts"

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

From: Brenna [mailto:sunnie at exis.net]

>In defense of my "picky child,"  she ate anything and everything when she
was 1.
>At 3, she discovered the idea of "tactile defensivness" (in addition to the
idea
>of "looking yucky"  or being "sticky").  It is a normal phase, so it
doesn't
>bother me that she has given up peas entirely in favor of a green salad.
Or that
>she won't eat a casserole but will eat a meal of the same ingredients.  It
>doesn't bother me that she wants the brown part of a banana cut off.  I was
a
>hundred times pickier as a child.  Now I avoid what I'm allergic to.  I'm
very
>receptive to trying new things.  I am sure my daughter will be the same.  I
will
>try to feed her everything at a feast she will deem to have on her plate.
>Someday she will ask me to taste the others if she sees me (or Daddy) eat
them.
>Sorry, but she knows if she doesn't eat, she starves.  That is the only
lesson
>she needs.  I don't battle over food.  If there is something available that
I
>know she will like better, I give her the option.  If it's not, she makes
due.
>
>Brenna

YES and Amen, and mine have only gone hungry once to my memory.

Nicolette
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