![]() Regarding the “try just a bite” prompt, what do you think would happen if I’d forced Littlewoods–in her enraged state–to take a bite of sprout? She would’ve spit it out and screamed. Littlewoods helping me make pumpkin crisp for Thanksgiving! And for what it’s worth, she ate them the next night because she’d forgotten she hated them, in part because I hadn’t made an issue out of it. She still didn’t eat the sprouts, but it didn’t create a scene or a struggle. If I offered an alternative food, that would teach her that when she rudely whines about a food, she gets rewarded with a different food.Ĭonversely, if I am totally unbothered and either don’t respond or just say a breezy, “ok,” it diffuses the situation almost immediately. If I contradict her and say, “you loved them the last time you ate them,” I’m just adding fuel to her preschool rage and she’ll see this as an invitation to dig in and fight harder. If I force her to eat them, that’ll build resentment and potentially an unhealthy/bizarre relationship with food. No need to engage, contradict, force or offer alternatives.
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