#164

I can still remember the look on my toddler cousin’s face when I eventually allowed her to have one of my tempting looking chocolate covered espresso beans


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#165

Is this approach too controversial to try with alcohol? I think I was allowed to try wine when I asked when I was a kid because it was so fucking disgusting it would be years before I tried again.

#166

Bloody love Penguins

Reliably enjoyable treat

#167

Not really what I’m daying

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#168

I’m going to share a top parenting tip with you all

You know how its annoying when older kids (or even adults) declare they don’t like “spicy” food and refuse to have anything to do with it,

When my kids were all I would always pop a very small amount of chili flakes in the “generic red pasta sauce” I would make on the regular (and still do). I would never say there was any chili in it. Over time I increase the chill content by a very small amount - result teenagers who are more than happy to eat spicy food

you’re welcome

#169

This reads like a shit/good passage from catcher in the rye :smiley:

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#170

I have never read it I’m afraid

#171

It’s about a boy that only eats beans

#172

it’s like your post, except with the word phony used every other sentance

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#173

I was just saying kids are individuals and very clever and parents are very tired

#174

out of interest, do you speak English or Swedish to your daughter, or is it not important (due to your choice as parent or the excellent language education in Sweden)?.

I ask as I was raised in a ‘bilingual’ household, but my dad worked nights a lot of the time and as such, didn’t spend a lot of time with him as a kid, so my main source of Spanish came from my grandparents, which definitely set back my language development a bit.

#175

Hey Theo, has she got a scooter? Always helped with school runs.

If you do the cooking make her be vegetarian like you, what’s the point in having kids if you can’t enforce your opinions on them huh?
Or just cook quorn
would she eat that?

Tbh my kids often have peanut butter on toast for tea, they’re still alive and growing so I wouldn’t worry about that. Lot of people who do the that’s for tea, have it or starve don’t know what it is like to have a child who has proper food anxiety.
What I do recommend, and I know it’s not easy, is eating together so dinner is more than eating
it’s about conversation, sharing etc. And always have bread on the table in some form


#176

She has a scooter. She will normally go one street before giving up and being ‘tired’ and walking a bit or waiting for you to pull her.

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#177

Speak both with her - we kodvÀxla all the time and she understands both equally

Of course, she uses the different languages in different environments & contexts but to be quite honest her environment is extremely multi-lingual. Just at her daycare there are 23 different ’home’ languages spoken among her friends alongside Swedish with around 70% of the kids there being bilingual plus they all learn sign language as well.

Add to that the fact that my TV is an Estonian Swede she even has a 3rd language which she uses mainly with her grandparents

But in general Sweden - or Stockholm, Malmö & Gothenburg at least - has a generation of young kids growing up multilingual due to various waves of immigration & European integration

It’s pretty great

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#178

had to google kodvÀxla.

cool.

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#179

I mean I also don’t think kids’ palates are like adult’s palates really. Your senses change a lot as you get older. Even if you offered kids beer and wine most wouldn’t want it (especially stripped of social cachet) and I think most of us had to force ourselves to like it in the first place.

I wonder if children not wanting to eat a lot of different types of taste could well be evolutionary too, an attempt to stop them from eating stuff that could make them sick by erring on the side of caution. Certainly the pickiness seems to start coming once they can move around a lot more and begin getting to lots of things they can stick in their mouths.

Regardless, the key thing here is I was a fussy eating kid even within my limited field of vegetarian and now I eat loads of different stuff and I’m not malnourished or anything. (We give her supplement vitamins in any case.)

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#180

Just put a spag bol pie in the oven before you go out to pick her up

#181

This makes a lot of sense, children are a lot more sensitive to bitter flavours than adults are.

#182

Had a whole My Little Pony to make it in so did it at 180C fan oven for 16 mins and it seemed really good and a lot tenderer than expected. Put some oil under it and it was pretty crispy too.

Cheers guys.

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#183

Plus the fact that children 0-2/3 put EVERYTHING in their mouths

Maybe we should be less concerned about them choking/poisoning themselves so they can sample more and have a more rounded diet

Though I suppose that in neolithic times there were far fewer pen tops, lego pieces & bottles of bleach to get their hands on