When Grace was approaching and passing her first birthday, she was involved in early intervention for her hearing loss, but they support any concerns at that age. She refused to eat food, so my hard of hearing educator tried to help me out with any oral/feeding concerns. She consulted with the eating expert, who insisted if we consistently offered food she would eat, warning it might take 15+ times.
Ha.
It was so nice to get some validation from our educator, that we had tried way more than 15+ times, and she just wasn't eating. In the end, we just kept offering without pressure, and a couple months after turning 1 she finally ate. I couldn't wean her till she was almost 16 months.
SO when the 'experts' say kids will try foods their parents make and eat, will eat things they grow/prepare, or will learn to like food if they try 3 bites, they lie.
It's been more than 5 years now that I've been trying to eat mostly plants, and most nights it's RD and I eating dinner. The kids may or may not eat the required 3 bites to make themselves a snack. Since they love to watch shows, we had them watch a food doc with us. The next night for dinner RD bought a bunch of fruits and vegetables, mostly fruit, and offered the kids a deal; ten cents for every food they tried, and we'd double it if they tried at least 5.
Grace and Aubree were pretty excited about this, and as our most adventurous eaters (you know, they might eat rice, or noodles, or even pieces of a salad), came out with $2 each. Reese was content with eating enough to make a buck, and Cameron finally earned his 30 cents.
In his science class they were testing for super-tasters, and he turned out to be one! He and I were not surprised.
I tried to tell him he could turn it into a job if he'd learn to eat food, but it didn't seem to motivate him to eat dinner.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
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