[SuziQ]

My mom wouldn't let me down from the table till I ate my helpin' of canned peas.

I always heard you should make you kids eat their veggies. When Paul, our first, was about 3 1/2, we had carrots for supper. He kep fiddling around and didn't eat them. He and I sat there for almost an hour until he finished them. He promply threw them up all over the table. Porrl little thing, I felt SO bad! Since then, I put the veggies on their plates, but NEVER forced them to eat them. We make sure they take a vitamin each day, and I figure when they're grown they may try some of the things they never liked before. Heck, I was adult before I ever ate cabbage, broccoli, or cantaloupe again, now I love em!

[RosieCotton]

When I was little, I hated oatmeal and bananas...'cause they were sometimes slimy, and I HATED anything with that texture. I like both now. If I had been forced, I imagine I would have been much less likely to try 'em again!

[2Jedismom]

There you go! That's exactly how I feel. What would get me was Matthew would eat something, then just abruptly STOP eatting it! Now that was distressing. I'd slice up say, banana, and put it on his plate. He'd take one bite and barf all over.

Up until that point he'd have eaten banana without any trouble.

Same thing happened with carrots and many other foods. AS he was growing he ate them then just one by one abandoned them.

My pediatrictian told me not to give him OJ (the only thing he took in that was anywhere remotely close to a fruit)...said he was stuffing himself on OJ. I gave him one glass with each meal. Screwy lady. I dumped her.

I supplement with multivitamins too...they're boys...eventually, they'll eat.