Is It That Unusual for Kids to Eat Vegetables??? - Page 3

[lach]

Originally Posted by limabean

Sometimes making small talk at a party where the adults don't know each other well can cause people to blurt stuff out before they really think it through.

A while ago a mama friend of mine told me that she had gone out for sushi the night before, and I said, "Oh, who watched your DD while you and your DH went out?" She told me that her DD, who loves sushi, had gone with them. I felt dumb.

Limabean (could there be a better username for this discussion?) makes an excellent point: I know that if I'm at a party with people I don't know very well, I sometimes say things that I then think "Oh my god, why did I say that? That isn't even true!" When my DD was a baby, she slept like a champ but whenever I was hanging out with other new mothers I found myself rolling my eyes and complaining about how often I was up at night... it was a solidarity thing, KWIM?

I think when you're hanging out with someone you don't really know, the impulse is to say something relatively safe, and something complimentary. So there's a cliche about kids not eating veggies makes it safe, and singling your children out as being exemplary is complimentary.

[dogretro]

I think most of it is you just like what you like. I am just thankful that my daughter loves to eat and always has. Most of my friends w/ toddlers, their kids wont eat anything, let alone veggies. I have seen a kid take a bite out of what many of us thought were delicious homemade muffins & then hand the muffin to his mom saying "no". My daughter? She ate two of them!

In our house, none of us are that fond of veggies. My mom and dad always made me eat veggies at dinner whether I liked them or not, which I think was v rude. I put food on dd's plate & encourage her to take at least one bite to see if she likes it, but if she doesnt want any more than that one bite, well, she knows what she likes! I, for one, do not like cheesecake AT ALL, but everyone else does & thinks Im weird. Many many ppl would say that cheesecake is delicious and they dont know why I wont eat it. Dh loves green beans, but dd hates them. To him, they taste wonderful, but to her, they do not. I always keep this in mind when dd refuses to eat something that "should" taste good.

[EdnaMarie]

Originally Posted by lach

Limabean (could there be a better username for this discussion?) makes an excellent point: I know that if I'm at a party with people I don't know very well, I sometimes say things that I then think "Oh my god, why did I say that? That isn't even true!" When my DD was a baby, she slept like a champ but whenever I was hanging out with other new mothers I found myself rolling my eyes and complaining about how often I was up at night... it was a solidarity thing, KWIM?

I think when you're hanging out with someone you don't really know, the impulse is to say something relatively safe, and something complimentary. So there's a cliche about kids not eating veggies makes it safe, and singling your children out as being exemplary is complimentary.

You know, you are probably right.

My kid has her no-veggie days but I just thought the tone was bizarre. They may have been trying to be complimentary. LOL.

And I know some kids don't like veggies, especially certain veggies, for no particular reason. That seems normal to me. It was the over-the-top amazement at selective veggie eating that perplexed me.

Of course my kid asked me to pick the blueberries out of her oatmeal this morning. I jinxed it, darn!

[Sol_y_Paz]

I guess not

[sunshadow]

At my daughter's first birthday our neighbor's boy turned down a cupcake for cauliflower. I was honestly dumbfounded. At that point I really hadn't been around very many kids and I know for a fact I didn't eat veggies when I was a kid! Now my daughter eats her veggies and asks for seconds. I think the will like them fine as long as they get a chance to eat them. As a child we were rarely served veggies, at least not well cooked veggies, and I think there are a lot of people who learned to hate them as a kid, so that's there only association.