Re: Will you or do you or did you force your children to eat?
I will not force my childern (when I have some) to eat anything...BUT I will do what my mom always did. She would tell use we had to eat 1 bite of anything on our plate, at every meal. We couldn't complaine about it, make faces or spit it out or we had to take another bite of it...till we could do it with out the faces. That means I tried a lot of things I would have turned up my nose at, some of them I even liked. But since the "rule" was firm we always knew to just get the bite of something we just "knew" we weren't going to like and then we could eat the rest of the meal in peace knowing if we really didn't like it we didn't have to touch it again...till she made that thing again. If we hated a whole meal, then we knew we could make ourselfs a PB & J, but only after taking our 1 bite of evrything!
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