Can you answer this question?

**Dancing Lotus** · 10-24-2007, 08:43 PM

THis is an actual question on a test. What is your answer?

You have spent all day in the kitchen makeing a meal for your family and your kid walks in a says YUCK I'm not going to eat that. Do you

A. Force them to sit at the table to eat what you have provided.
B. The two bite rule, you have to atleast try it.
C. Okay, if you dont want to eat then go outside and play.

I am intersted to see what the majority of you say. I will give you the answer at the end of the day tomarrow and tell you why I ask.

**altbaby** · 10-24-2007, 08:48 PM

First of all, if my child said, YUCK I would be a bit pissed. I would tell them that is not the way to talk to me and you will sit down at the table with everyone else and atleast try it. But that is dinner so finish or not but don't cry to me when you're hungry in an hour. I am sorry but with 5 people in the family you eat what you have on your plate. THE END

**baxjul** · 10-24-2007, 09:03 PM

Okay, I picked B

**Edna_E** · 10-24-2007, 09:12 PM

I'm an A on this one. I might try not to make it again (or at least very often) but I don't believe in waste, and I don't believe in letting kids grow up thinking its ok to be rude.

**powerfm1** · 10-24-2007, 09:20 PM

After grounding my kid, I would say "Fine, you don't have to eat it, but there's no more food to be had in the kitchen tonight".

Fortunately, that scenario never came up. If it didn't walk off the table, they ate it and were glad to have it.

**jlaporte** · 10-24-2007, 09:21 PM

i pick B. we are a family of 5 we need to make do. my oldest has the hardest time with this. he has control issues.dinner is a fight with him. he has learned that if he wants to go on the computer or anyothe privelage he has to at least try it.

**nodmicks** · 10-24-2007, 09:23 PM

B. a try is good

**bumplett** · 10-24-2007, 09:23 PM

B. The two bite rule, you have to atleast try it.

This is the rule here - you have to at least try it before you can determine you don't like it.

I'd never force my child to eat something they didn't like, I certainly wouldn't be happy to eat lima beans, so I wouldn't make someone else eat them.

**leezza** · 10-24-2007, 09:51 PM

B. The two bite rule, you have to at least try it.

This was the rule at our house growing up, looking back I am glad my folks were this way.

leezza

**jamie79** · 10-24-2007, 10:02 PM

Thats fine if you dont want to eat it. You have a choice, make yourself something as I am not a short order cook or go hungry

**YankeeMom** · 10-24-2007, 10:08 PM

B.

The board won't let me just answer B. so I'm typing this sentence

**Becci** · 10-24-2007, 10:10 PM

I go with B too. Except in our house it's only one bite. But it has to be a decent bite, chewed and swallowed. Like everyone else, nothing else to eat either. Also would give the talk on the manners llike the others have said too.

I wouldn't make anyone eat something that they ftruly don't like. DS14 doesn't like mushies so we have them when he's at his mothers. He had comprimised tho and says that he will eat them as long as he doesn't know they are in there. So I chop them up fine in spag bol, etc.

When I'm introducing a new food tho i try to incorporate it into something that they already like. Like when we decided to grow spinach and silverbeet, at first I put it into savoury mince (which is a big hit in our house).

Also, I read in a book that kids who are picky eaters tend to be the ones that don't want to try things like drugs later on. So there is always a positive side to being fussy.

**mom2three** · 10-24-2007, 10:15 PM

we do a one bite rule as well, but we will try foods again and again and they always have to try it. My 7 year old eats things that she never would have a couple of years ago.

**frugalfarmwife** · 10-24-2007, 10:18 PM

LOL, and this is reason #847 why I don't have children! If I'd slaved over it and gotten that reaction I KNOW I'd be quick to react, and not in a pretty way

KJ

**McD** · 10-24-2007, 10:23 PM

When something like this comes up at my house, my son sits at the table with me while I eat my dinner. If he doesn't want to eat something I made, that's fine, I will not force him to eat...but he has to learn that he still needs to sit at teh table at dinner time.