I have friends who have a child who will only eat chicken nuggets and tater tots. Why? Because he throws a fit everytime they put something in front of him that isn’t chicken nuggets and tater tots, so they rush to make him chicken nuggets and tater tots to make him calm down.
I have, as lovingly as possible, told them that if he missed a couple of meals, and had to sit at the table until everyone else finished, that he would be eating other foods by the end of the week. They think it is cruel to let a 3 year old miss a meal. I think it’s cruel that in 20 years I will be reading about a 23 year old man who can only eat chicken nuggets and tater tots.
I doubt that food phobias are much of a problem in much of the world.
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There’s a couple in our church whose eldest son lives on saltine crackers and ketchup. Wherever he goes, he carries a ziploc bag with crackers, just in case. He is a junior in high school now, not quite as sickly as this girl, but very small. He had wanted to play football for years and the parents missed the chance to make him eat (if you don’t eat you will never be able to play). I wonder if he will be able to survive college!
Every kid does that. They eventually grow out of it. Why make an issue out of it?
He was sick ALL the time. In fact, he didn't last very long at the job because he was always calling in.
Our pediatrician soon straightened ME out. "Let him fall once".
Sure enough...the next night he finally tired himself out and fell down...sighed and fell asleep....And so did mom and dad!!!
Now this kid...He sure as hell wasn't eating chicken nuggets and tater tots when he was little.
Mom....you need to re-train him. He'll never starve himself.
This 23 year old...honey if that's what you want to do...If you don't care....we don't care. You like all the attention though, dontcha.
Someone gave us a rabbit once since we had others. They warned us he would only eat a special high dollar feed, not the hay cubes ours get. After three days, he decided to try the hay cubes and after a week, he learned to love them. He lived out his remaining years here in perfect health.
The child is eating only MSG. Both those products are full of this addictive taste enhancer. It’s like crack. He’s addicted. I swear I’d give him a day of ice cream - or two or three - to get him off those neurotoxins. He is heading toward a neurodegenerative disease at a fast pace.
Kids go through stages with their eating habits. When my son was five, he would only eat beets and cottage cheese, with my daughter at slightly younger it was Mr. Wiggle (jello) and hot dogs, one grandson only hot dogs, bananas and scrambled eggs, the other chicken nuggets and tater tots.
I made my son sit at the table one time until he ate one cooked green bean. Five hours later he was still there as was the green bean. Yes I let him get up from the table. He finally began slowly adding things to his diet like pasta dishes, as long as nothing was all mixed together. He’s now 50, very healthy, still eats beets and cottage cheese as well as a lot of other things. But he wouldn’t eat a green bean if his life depended on it.
It will pass for most. My mother tells me for a year I would only eat one thing. The threats to starve, sit at the table all night, etc., didn't work at all. I would only eat one thing. Now I go to the buffet occasionally when I can afford to and eat all kinds of things. Still no broccoli, though.