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Eh, it's a fine theory but I have twins. One is the pickiest eater ever and getting her to eat is like an on-call sort of situation to be handled personally by
by scruple 3y ago
Eh, it's a fine theory but I have twins. One is the pickiest eater ever and getting her to eat is like an on-call sort of situation to be handled personally by mom or me. Her twin sister, these are 4 year olds, ate like 8 pieces of plain, steamed broccoli with her dinner last night. Her 2 year old brother is a great eater, too. The only difference (in routine and exposure to others) between the twin girls is that they're in different preschool classrooms. I've long suspected that she gets a lot of this behavior from other kids in her class.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoAt 4 y.o. they aren't just picking behavior from their kindergarten-mates, they're literally sharing food at every possible opportunity. In this environment, awareness of varieties of snacks and kid TV shows both spread faster than infectious diseases.
- taylodl 3y agoWelcome my son Welcome to the machine What did you dream? We told you what to dream As a parent one of the worst things you get to witness is your kids being assimilated into the machine. Nobody wants it. Many try to fight it. All will lose. We've all been assimilated into the machine to some extent.
- nameless912 3y agoMy hope is that when my kiddo starts going to school that we can maintain eating relatively healthy stuff at our house by acknowledging that "junk" food (we're going to try to avoid that term so we don't assign morality to food) exists, and we can absolutely eat it, but that different foods make us feel differently, and eating too much of that kind of food can make you feel sick. I just hope it works.
- taylodl 3y agoWe called it "party food": soda, chips, candy, cakes, etc. That's not regular food. You consume that at parties and even then don't eat too much - you'll get sick. My kids are adults now and they regulate themselves pretty well.