I think there is truth in this, but I don’t think it is as black and white

Love a bit banter between mums. Everyone has their opinions and everyone thinks they are correct.

I agree with her that kids aren’t born picky.

I agree in large part, my daughter had sensory issues so she could not eat certain things, but because I put a large array of food before her when she was young, and I ate a wide variety of foods when pregnant, she is a good eater. She was when young too, and yet going to speech therapy and encountering alot of kids on the spectrum, their mothers would commonly say \”my kid will only eat cheese pizza, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets\”…because that is what they were commonly fed. No kid is going to eat broccoli when they can choose pizza instead. Just my opinion based on years of observation

My kids will eat anything if I put cheese on it, too. I don’t think she’s winning anything here..

Well, I did everything ‘right’ with my first and she is the fussiest eater. It’s easy to have feel superior when everything is going right. It’s when they start to get some independence and want autonomy that things can take an unexpected turn

Well it’s her opinion. Noone need to agree with it.

To be honest I couldn’t care less about this woman’s opinion. Every child is different.

In this day and age some picky eaters are created other have sensory disorders. Everybody needs to take a step back and have a really really good look at themselves and what they are or are not encouraging children to eat

I think there is some truth to that statement. Though my middle child has never been able to tolerate certain textures. To this day (he is 12) he still cannot eat scrambled eggs or custard or mashed potato or other mushy type ingredients without gagging and sometimes vomiting although he can eat yoghurt (go figure). My youngest(6), I regret not pushing more vegetables but he is also similar to his brother and cant tolerate certain textures. Our only hope is that the 12 year old is getting better with the foods he will try and likes. Our 14 year old daughter has been the most adventurous of the lot. She tried oysters at 10.

My opinion that its some what true but all mums definitely try to make their kids eat healthy and a balanced diet but if they dont want to we also cant keep the babies hungry we definity have to give them with what they are happy and wants to eat… cant blame a mum completely for this
We mums give our best

I think some parents do, but they do it for what they think are the right reasons.

For some children it might be the parent’s making, but for a lot it’s not.

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  • • mom466087 replied
    • 28 May 2022 , 8:57 pm

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  100%!

Why does she assume picky as being related to junk food. Not necessarily true. Some kids are picky and will only eat certain vegetarian or fruit etc some may just like 1 colour of food

I kind of get what shes trying to say with her explaination but not every child fits that same criteria despite parents offering all sorts of food

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  • • mom466087 replied
    • 27 May 2022 , 10:39 am

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  Totally agree with you