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Some really interesting points made.

My sister in law is a classic case of pandering to her kids. They are unbelievably fussy and she feeds them the usual - pizza, burgers, turkey twizzlers - claiming they won't eat anything else. However when they go to stay with my mother, after wingeing for a couple of days, they are eating everything in sight - all good homecooked food - much of which they help prepare. They visit the butchers with her, select & dig up the veg and get far more enjoyment of what they eat. They return home looking loads healthier. The eldest has even been heard blaming his fussy eating on his mother saying she never made him eat everything so he didn't. Now aged 13, he has gone to boarding school (his choice & he won a scholarship), he doesn't get a choice and he is happy to eat anything put in front of him.

I am continuously amazed watching parents in the supermarket being dictated to by their kids on what they should buy. As a child we had to eat everything - if we didn't it was no pudding (better than my mum whose father used to mix anything they left in with their pudding - fat, gravy in with jam roly poly & custard - yum!)

<blockquote data-quote="jinnyj" data-source="post: 2088325" data-attributes="member: 65066">Some really interesting points made.My sister in law is a classic case of pandering to her kids.&nbsp; They are unbelievably fussy and she feeds them the usual - pizza, burgers, turkey twizzlers - claiming they won&#039;t eat anything else.&nbsp; However when they go to stay with my mother, after wingeing for a couple of days, they are eating everything in sight - all good homecooked food - much of which they help prepare.&nbsp; They visit the butchers with her, select &amp; dig up the veg and get far more enjoyment of what they eat.&nbsp; They return home looking loads healthier.&nbsp; The eldest has even been heard blaming his fussy eating on his mother saying she never made him eat everything so he didn&#039;t.&nbsp; Now aged 13, he has gone to boarding school (his choice &amp; he won a scholarship), he doesn&#039;t get a choice and he is happy to eat anything put in front of him.I am continuously amazed watching parents in the supermarket being dictated to by their kids on what they should buy.&nbsp; As a child we had to eat everything - if we didn&#039;t it was no pudding (better than my mum whose father used to mix anything they left in with their pudding - fat, gravy in with jam roly poly &amp; custard - yum!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jinnyj, post: 2088325, member: 65066"] Some really interesting points made. My sister in law is a classic case of pandering to her kids. They are unbelievably fussy and she feeds them the usual - pizza, burgers, turkey twizzlers - claiming they won't eat anything else. However when they go to stay with my mother, after wingeing for a couple of days, they are eating everything in sight - all good homecooked food - much of which they help prepare. They visit the butchers with her, select & dig up the veg and get far more enjoyment of what they eat. They return home looking loads healthier. The eldest has even been heard blaming his fussy eating on his mother saying she never made him eat everything so he didn't. Now aged 13, he has gone to boarding school (his choice & he won a scholarship), he doesn't get a choice and he is happy to eat anything put in front of him. I am continuously amazed watching parents in the supermarket being dictated to by their kids on what they should buy. As a child we had to eat everything - if we didn't it was no pudding (better than my mum whose father used to mix anything they left in with their pudding - fat, gravy in with jam roly poly & custard - yum!) [/QUOTE]

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