Is this familiar to anyone? Last night was Friday, it's a school day, plus it's therapy day, it's double running around day. We got home and I opted for the easy way out. I baked a frozen pizza. Tony's, pekeroni. The only kind she'll eat. I had some leftover green beans, so I nuked them and put them in a seperate bowl. I served her two pieces of pizza. She looked at it and told me she now loves green beans (WTF?) but, hates pizza. HATES it.I said, okay. Try it and get your stickers...or don't.. She asked if the dog could have some? I said he can have a bite. Now eat, okay? Two minutes later I hear..EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! I go in and find the dog has thrown up what looks like an entire piece of pizza on the carpet. I cleaned it up, scrubbed the spot and sprayed Febreze and said, done. Lis pushed her plate away dramatically and said, now I can never eat pizza again. Ever. As long as I live. (I felt the same way at this point.)
Ten minutes later, her dad shows up. He said he had to come to town anyway so he thought he might pick Lis up for awhile. I said, you bet! She came home later sing songing, 'I had pizza! I love my daddy's pizza! Pizza, pizza, piiiiiiiizza!"
I reminded her about how she hates pizza now. She said next time I make frozen pizza I have to call her daddy and find out how he makes frozen pizza because he is the ONLY person who knows how to make it good. I told her I would do that. And she still got a sticker on her chart, because somewhere she managed to eat dinner. It only took her 3 hours.
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A the flip flop decision making. HATE It, my 3 year old does that. But frankly she was born with an old soul so I consider her at time 10.
Glad to her lissa got to see her dad for awhile.
I just heated up left over tuna casserole for my breakfast. (Lis had cereal and waffles.) Now she says she wants the casserole. I said, I thought you hated tuna?? No, now she LOVES it. I handed it over. I'll eat some fruit. Kids suck.
Oh, now she doesn't like it and is throwing it in the trash. I'm giving her the stink eye. Big time.
Oh DD I know the feeling. Sometimes I feel like joan collins. Telling my child to eat something she is not fond of or hasn't tried. She always raves over food. But then when it comes to it. She is like its gross. without even trying it. But when you try to make her stay at the table and make her try it. She goes into a fit demanding to get down.
I only make her sit at the table for 30 min with the food. If she does eat half of it. She is allowed to have 1 gum ball.
Slight progress with her. Also having the sticker chart helps to.
I want stickers and rewards for not being commited.
lol, welcome back to child rearing. The boy thankfully is a great eater but he often says he doesn't like something he has eaten a thousand times. we get around it by offering it to daddy, he is so competitive with his dad that he will run...run to the plate & say, no dad, this is MINE, not YOURS. and then eat the lot. And he always hovers around me when I am eating to see if there is something interesting to steal. lol
The most annoying is when he says he is full after eating a few mouthfuls of something but then asks for snacks or treats. I usually make him eat another 4 mouthfuls (one per year of his age) and then he can have the treat. Otherwise he can go jump. If he's hungry enough for chocolate or cake then he is hungry enough to eat his dinner.
Oh & I NEVER have anything else on offer at diner time, you get what you are given & if you don't eat it then tough. haha. mother of the year me.
I don't understand all these food issues. WTF? Just eattttttttttt.
oh the other thing that really bugs me is how long it takes them to eat, the boy will have a rambling conversation going on with or about his food but not actually be eating it. I must say "just stop talking & eat" about 10 times every breakfast time. dinner I don't care so much how long he takes but the mornings are a rush, why does it take 35 minutes to eat a plate of eggs or a bowl of cereal?
I'm no genious about this, but is it just a control issue? It seems like a little area where they can take control and jerk adults around because they know that it is important to us adults that they eat, but yet we can't really make them.
My son didn't do anything like that so far as I remember, but while he was in grade school, he always insisted on PBJ sandwiches for lunch. I made lots of suggestions, but he always insisted on the same thing, every day. One day he came home from school and very accusingly said to me, "why do you keep making me have those stupid PBJ sandwiches for school all the time??!". I admit to standing there with my mouth hanging open for a moment.
Fuck me. I know. I have to wake her up a half hour early to eat a breakfast that takes her 2 minutes to eat on a weekend when I don't care how long it takes. She hates something one day, loves it the next day. She has a list. The school cafeteria can make nuggets. I can not.
I think she is just messing with you most of the time. Or maybe her taste buds are bipolar. Either way I would say, don't give into her anymore. Offer her what is for dinner, no choices, just what ever you make is what is for dinner. Then give her a goal of what is expected to be gone off the plate. Like half of the plate, or at least 4 of this or half of that etc. Then if she doesn't eat what is expected she doesnt get anything else to eat until the next meal. Thats just my opinion on the issue :D
Like I did with you? LMFAO!
i got so pissed off with food wars that i made a very strict rule with my kid. i would give him a plate full of food and if there was stuff on the plate he didnt like he was more than welcome to leave it. i just didnt want to hear about it. the rule was by all means leave it on the side of your plate but SHUT UP cause i dont eant to hear you whining about it. it worked a treat. meal times were always stress free. try it! i hate it when they act like you're trying to fucking poisen them... lol
Exactly, poison them. It's funny, but, it's snot.
I think she's trying to pull your strings. She knows on school days, she has a certain amount of time to eat. Make her a sandwich and she can eat it on the way to school.
It's five blocks.
I had mean nasty parents growing up. My mother would make one meal & there were absolutely no subsitutions. You were supposed to eat everything. I didn't like most veggies (only corn & green beans) & wouldn't eat creamy/ slimey things. So that knocked out tuna noodle casserole & macaroni and cheese. Still can't eat any of those. And, don't give me orange potatoes with goopey sugary sauce on them. A potato is only white & mashed. My poor dad had to sit at the table with me every night until I either ate enough, or stuffed enough in my cheeks (and walk to the bathroom & spit it out). So what did I do with my kids? The same damn thing, except I tried not to cook stuff I knew they would not eat. But only one meal was fixed for dinner. Told them I did not run a cafeteria.
five blocks gives her plenty of time to eat on the run lol! i had my face pushed into my dinner plate as a child, i had to eat everything and some foods did actually make me feel ill. thats why i decided to take the stress out of eating and let my kid make his own decisions. and it worked because he was a pretty good eater, and never complained... reverse pshycology is the best defence... ;-)
CJ, that sounds mean and horrible. Poor little you. I can't be mean about food. It's an issue. I have a list of things she'll eat and I try. But, it keeps changing on whims. So? It's nothing worth fighting over. Eat part of it or don't. If you don't..no sticker. If you can't get 30 stickers by Friday, no allowance. If you can't eat part of your dinner, then you must be too full for ice cream and cakes. Shrugs.
Lia, all of you sound sensible, but, this is a child who has behavior issues because of her home life. It's hard to disipline your own, let alone someone else's child that hasn't had rules. I have to walk carefully here.
tell me about it dd! and imagine the carpeting you'd get if mum told child services that gran lets lissa eat whatever she likes...while watching tv!!!!! :-O yep you'd be in deep shit! i wish you bucketloads of patience...
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