re: Parenting Test of Will

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Wore his arse out multiple times already

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You beat your kids ?

Mine is 12 and I've never laid a hand on him but he's starting to feel his oats.

Too bad your kid doesn't have this appetite

poor baby

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He doesn’t have to eat it, but he won’t eat anything else until he does (worked on me with my third girlfriend).

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This. It's simple, let the kid leave the table with the promise of shrimp/corn soup for his next meal. Repeat process until biology takes over and he eats it.

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The wife made a shrimp and corn soup for dinner. He refuses to eat it. I told him he couldn’t leave the table until the bowl was empty. No reheating. It is now a test of wills. Anyone else take this experience this with their kids?

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My rule is that if you ask for it you eat it, at least most of it. If you don't want to eat it at all, fine, but we're not making you a special alternate meal (the exception to this is when we already know they don't like the dish. In that case we'll make them something else).

eta- I used to force my oldest to clear her plate when she was younger but that just made her hate those foods. She won't eat eggs or grits to this day because I tried to make her eat them 15 years ago.

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That’s the way I was raised.

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Oh, well, since we're raising kids the same way they've been raised for centuries, carry on.

You sound like father of the year material.

Hate to break it to you but he’s already won.

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My rule is that if you ask for it you eat it, at least most of it. If you don't want to eat it at all, fine, but we're not making you a special alternate meal.

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Basically this.

If they don’t like something you can’t make them like it.

I’ve never had a problem with my two to get them to eat when they liked what was cook.

( the six year old is currently destroying her roast over rice with corn).


I look at like this.

If you cooked for me and said dish had mayonnaise in it and I couldn’t leave your table till I was finished.........well you’d be haveinf a sleep over guest that night.

The bowl is empty. We have moved on to air hockey.

My son is 4 and will honestly go hungry over eating something he doesn’t want. He actually has incredible determination.

I thought at first that he will easily just get hungry and eat it. Nope, he will literally go to sleep hungry over eating.

At first i was sorta pissed that he just wouldn’t eat but the more i realized that what he is doing is actually pretty impressive, i quit being mad.