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Three articles on pickiness
Oct. 17th, 2007 09:45 pm
One on expatriate Americans, and the diets of their children. A bit over-dramatic
One on that book teaching adults how to hide food so their kids will eat it.
One on the genetic basis of pickiness
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My thoughts:
1. Some of the comments to the NYTimes article are really... ugh. Yes, if you never let your child eat a chicken nugget, they will not refuse to eat anything but. However, that doesn't mean that they won't, instead, fixate on some other food. (As my mother pointed out, they used to have to hide to eat blue cheese when we were kids!)
1b. Some of the *advice* in the comments to the NYTimes article are equally bad. I mean, I'm all for not cooking an extra meal (except when I've intentionally made something I know the kid dislikes, in which case that's common courtesy), and I'm about "none of an extra this unless you at least take a reasonable bite of that" (especially dessert)... but not allowing your kid any of their dinner until the salad is gone? Or they have it for breakfast? And you gloat about how disgusting it is? Not cool. As my mother said, I would never do that to a guest, no matter how obnoxious they were. (I wouldn't give a guest a separate meal, either, so that's consistent.)
2. That said, hiding food certainly doesn't keep kids from being picky. If you're lying to them, how are they going to know that whatever-it-is really tastes good?
One on that book teaching adults how to hide food so their kids will eat it.
One on the genetic basis of pickiness
( Read more... )
My thoughts:
1. Some of the comments to the NYTimes article are really... ugh. Yes, if you never let your child eat a chicken nugget, they will not refuse to eat anything but. However, that doesn't mean that they won't, instead, fixate on some other food. (As my mother pointed out, they used to have to hide to eat blue cheese when we were kids!)
1b. Some of the *advice* in the comments to the NYTimes article are equally bad. I mean, I'm all for not cooking an extra meal (except when I've intentionally made something I know the kid dislikes, in which case that's common courtesy), and I'm about "none of an extra this unless you at least take a reasonable bite of that" (especially dessert)... but not allowing your kid any of their dinner until the salad is gone? Or they have it for breakfast? And you gloat about how disgusting it is? Not cool. As my mother said, I would never do that to a guest, no matter how obnoxious they were. (I wouldn't give a guest a separate meal, either, so that's consistent.)
2. That said, hiding food certainly doesn't keep kids from being picky. If you're lying to them, how are they going to know that whatever-it-is really tastes good?
