sam wrote:

> My 2 year old daughter is a very fussy eater all she will eat is
> yoghurts and turkey dinasours, has any one got any tips on how I could
> get her to try new things?

Do you like to eat everything? Neither does she.

There seems to be this notion afoot that parents have to demonstrate
that they're in charge. That what they say goes and the kids have to
just go along and shut up...

Have you forgotten how things were when you were a child? How many
things you were forced to do? Did you like it?

In our house, from the day we brought them home from the hospital, it
was you have to at least taste it. If you say "yuck" you never have to
eat it again if you don't want to. So there has never been a contest in
our house. We saved our parental authority for those things that
represented a hazard to the kids.

When the kids feel like they can exercise some control over their world,
the relationship with parents is a lot smoother.

Pastorio