Offering a Second Choice?

[sunnydays]

Fair enough I value all viewpoints, but do like a good debate

Everyone's different. I just can't do that.

[Inspired by Reggio]

Fair enough I value all viewpoints, but do like a good debate

Agreed ... seriously allowing a child to be seen as competent and capable to CHOOSE if they are hungry enough to try what was offered to them is not starving them!

Not to mention this same 'illogic' of I did not want to deny her what she wanted cause I was afraid she would starve was recently used by the mother in THIS story of the 17 year old child who collapsed of malnutrition in England after her mother catered to her picky eating of only having chicken nuggets for 15 plus years ... and the irony was she DID starve in the end anyway

Honestly human beings need a variety of foods from all the food groups in order to get the proper balance the body's organs need to thrive ~ catering to picky eaters deprives children of that BASIC NEED!

[Inspired by Reggio]

Opps forgot to put the link in .... in this story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...ets-age-2.html

This story hits close to home because my SIL fell into this same stupid parenting trap of only feeding my niece a select choice of things she 'preferred' ... waffles and applesauce for breakfast, chicken nuggets, fries and baby carrots and grilled cheese were basically her diet and at every damily function she was given a 'separate dinner' prepared before even being expected to TRY what was being offered cause the mom did not want to 'battle with her' ... at 10 she collapsed from malnutrition and ended up with juvenile diabetes and kidney damage from that 'limited' diet ... so despite the fact that her daughter never went 'hungry' she was basically starving from lack of variety and access to the vitamins and minerals needed from a healthy diet and the mom was almost charged with 'neglect of her basic needs' for having catered to that diet for years ... they had to agree to go into nutrition counseling and a whole vat of other things as a result.