"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:54:30 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits
> > wrote:
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>> How odd. Our children almost all love salads. The littlest ones
>>have a harder time with them, but we usually give them a tiny bit to
>>pick through and they do alright. I think it's more of that training
>>children to eat children only food and defining that as junk.
>
> I honestly can't say how kids operate. You're more experienced than
> me by three.
>
> Both of my kids needed to be told to try new things. I had the three
> bite rule... they took three bites, not nibbles, and swallowed - then
> they could quit eating if they still didn't like it. DD used to look
> at anything new and tell me "Whatever that is, I don't like it". It
> was very difficult to do the follow through with her. My son (the
> oldest) was easier, not easy... easier. He told me after he was a
> father himself that he hated it because after the third bite more
> often than not *I* was right, but he pretended not to like it to save
> face... which explained why he didn't protest the next time that item
> was served.
>
> His son, however, was influenced by someone who took every new food
> item away as soon as he made a face. So, aversion to anything new was
> reinforced. It was very hard to overcome and he's still learning to
> give new foods a try before rejecting them. On the plus side... he's
> also the kid who loved sushi before he was two. So there's always
> hope.

Angela is very good to try new foods and that's a good thing because her
food allergies limit what she can eat.

I do not have the three bite rule though. If she takes a bite and doesn't
like it, she never has to eat it again. She does however on her own ask to
try things later that she once didn't like. I don't think she will ever
like raw tomatoes.