Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> Julia wrote:
> >...and then I made The Threat: "Sammy, if you don't stop banging
> >that block on the table, your daddy is going to offer you some
> >broccoli." He didn't bang the block on anything else for the rest of
> >the meal. Of course, he would have had the option of refusing the
> >broccoli, but he didn't even want to have it offered. (If anyone wants
> >to criticize me on this, go ahead, I'd just appreciate it if you were
> >polite about it.)
>
> <polite mode=on>
> You're very lucky you have a child to whom you can give that kind of choice
> and still trust he'll get all the various nutrients he needs. With a couple
> of my nephews (a few years older than Sammy), if you gave them the option of
> refusing anything that was offered, they'd refuse everything except pizza
> :-) Our general practice with them is to let them make choices, but only
> let them choose between various options that are all acceptable to us.
> <polite mode=off>
>
> There, how was that? :-)
Pretty good.
As long as he gets *some* sort of vegetable, we figure things are OK
right now.
Tonight we pulled the "no more rolls until you eat some of your chicken"
tactic. He wasn't hungry enough to eat the chicken. So no more rolls.
But he was content to stay at the table with the rest of us until Dan
was done eating, without any fussing after we made it clear that we were
sticking to our guns on the no more rolls before chicken statement.
The things he likes to eat are in enough variety that he's getting at
least the basics of carbs, proteins and fats, and he gets vitamin drops
for good measure. If he eats some fruit and some vegetable each day, we
figure we're helping set him up for better habits in the future, and
he's not getting much in the way of real junk. (And for him it wouldn't
be pizza; we'd be spending $5 a day at Sonic getting him grilled cheese
sandwiches, except the days that we took him to Mongolian BBQ and let
him stuff his face with tofu, chicken and bread. Although we've been
getting him to eat bits of zucchini with it lately, which is good.)
Julia
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