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To: nickcarraway
Soon, his pickiness gave way to several years of consuming only breakfast-style sausages and water, three times a day, every day.

Which she voluntarily bought. I can't imagine kowtowing to a toddler in my grocery buying, or anything else, for that matter. And I've lived through four of them.

5 posted on 10/07/2020 3:05:32 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Lizavetta

It’s a disorder. I have a friend who had it. Not quite this severe, but pretty close. Something happened when she was around 3 and suddenly she stopped eating almost all foods. I started expanding her diet at around 18.


11 posted on 10/07/2020 3:20:53 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Lizavetta

Same here.


24 posted on 10/07/2020 3:34:47 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: Lizavetta
Which she voluntarily bought. I can't imagine kowtowing to a toddler in my grocery buying, or anything else, for that matter. And I've lived through four of them.

If my children had had their way as toddlers, they would have eaten nothing but chicken nuggets and fries all through childhood.

A night or two of going to bed hungry was the cure.

28 posted on 10/07/2020 3:37:11 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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To: Lizavetta
We have four kids too, now grown. We made it real clear we were not short order cooks. There was one menu for the family meal and if they didn't want it, there was the peanut butter jar - or an empty tummy. They usually found something they would eat.

On the other hand, we never made mealtime a battle, the way I've seen some parents do. We figured the will to live being a pretty basic human instinct, they'd eat enough to meet their needs.

They're happy and healthy adults with no eating disorders.

48 posted on 10/07/2020 4:20:52 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Lizavetta

Compassionate type, eh??


62 posted on 10/07/2020 4:47:41 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Lizavetta

“I can’t imagine kowtowing to a toddler in my grocery buying, or anything else, for that matter. And I’ve lived through four of them”

Short of refusing to eat until the child is hospitalized I think parents will just them go ahead and eat their pizza slices or french fries or whatever the child is spoiling for. My sister-in-law put her oldest boy in the hospital three times when he was very young because he absolutely refused to eat unless it was what he wanted and they didn’t give in easily. They were at wits end with that child. Today as a 35 year old he eats nutritious meals and his children eat nutritious meals as well.


65 posted on 10/07/2020 5:03:05 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Lizavetta

No mention of the dad in the article.


80 posted on 10/07/2020 6:10:57 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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