Caryn Nadelberg wrote:
>
> We have been having our son try things at least once. We've noticed
> that the more he is around other kids the more resistant he is to even
> try something, saying it is gross or yucky before he has even tasted it.
>
> But we still do insist on just a bite. He can even spit it out if he
> needs to. Then we leave it. Sometimes he will eat more, sometimes not.
>
> We don't want a picky eater so we do try to offer him different things
> and take him to different places. He seems to be able to eat something
> most anywhere we go.
>
> --
> Caryn
> Caryn Nadelberg - Mommy to Sam and Queen of the May
> www.carynen.blogspot.com

I was the same way with my son -- he had to give things an "honest
taste" before he could say he didn't want to eat something new. Now I'm
very proud to say that there are no foods he will not eat. I never
forced him to eat foods he obviously disliked, unlike my own parents!

Oh, how I wish my folks were as enlightened as you when I was a kid! I
cannot begin to count the many times as a child when I had to remain at
the dinner table until bedtime because I adamantly refused to eat the
(read various expletives here!) canned peas and other cooked green
veggies that I was served. My parents knew very well I wouldn't eat
those particular foods, yet they continued with the power struggles and
control issues all the same. More than likely the emotional scars from
those "battles" kept/keep me from trying some foods I otherwise might
try had the circumstances been different.

As it is, I still maintain that there are some people who cannot
tolerate the smell and taste of some particular foods, regardless of how
they're prepared or if they're disguised as an ingredient with other
foods. For instance, I dislike bell peppers no matter how they're
prepared, alone or with other foods. If bell peppers are used in any
recipe, then that's all I taste because the flavor (to me) so overpowers
anything else included.

Sky, who knows the "milage will vary" with this issue