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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 13:19

So DS is 3.5 years old and requested pasta pesto for lunch. Ok now problem, off I go and make it with stuffed tortellini only to have him refuse to eat it as he doesn't like stuffed pasta. This is news to me as he's eaten it before although has never been a big fan. I've basically told him I don't like wasting food and he is to have no snacks or milk for the rest of the day. I should add although I'm annoyed about waste I'm worried now he's not eaten.

What would you do?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 19:10
children wont starve they will eat if they are hungry ! They also need to be taught not to waste food and cannot afford to be making them 2 dinners of they decide they dont like what has been given to them originally !
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 19:05
I refuse to breed a fussy eater, so the choice when it comes to mealtimes - Are you going to eat OR not?
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 08:46
My mother used to do the same when we were kids...not that i remember. Over here there is this habit for the maids to chase the kids around the house with a spoon to eat and my mother flatly refused to do that. We sat at the table and ate or we didnt eat at all. I don't remember it, i don't feel i was uncared for. I think as long as they understand that this is why its happening ... like others have said, its hard. We do what we feel is right at the time xxx
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 08:38
Oh no. 3.5 years old? I would never do this. I think food is the most important thing for the children and they should be able to enjoy it. I was 'forced' to eat my food or go to bed hungry as a child, and the memories still haunt me. Not so much of being hungry but I felt uncared for. Perhaps you should have shown him the pasta before you cooked it? I just cannot help feeling that 3 years old is too young for this. Besides childrens tastes change a lot. What they loved one month, they hate the next.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 23:02
I'd do (and have done) the same myself... in fact, this evening! lol! DD refused to even sit near her tuna and pasta - something that she usually wolfs down... so I told her to get down from the table instead of disrupting DS and that she wouldn't have anything else and no milk unless she ate what was on her plate... she didn't, so that was that. She told me she was hungry just before going to bed, so I replied that she should have eaten her dinner when it was dinnertime. She's certainly not going to waste away overnight and maybe it'll make her think twice about refusing to eat... probably won't, but hey. Three going on thirteen. Oh and yes... bless yer for doing stuffed pasta! I don't give the kids anything that takes longer to prepare than it does to eat for exactly that reason... unless it's leftovers from the previous night.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 22:09
I think that I would have eaten it myself and if I had plain pasta made him some of that, as I get that he doesn't like stuffed pasta. If he had refused the plain pasta, I would have done what you did. But who's to say what's right? It's not easy is it?
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 13:43
I would have done the same as you. say nothing else. He has eaten the food before, you made pretty much what he requested so sorry thats all. He wont starve. I know its hard to know what the right thing to do is.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 13:26
In all honesty, he did not ask for stuffed pasta... LOL! Ain't that the truth! He was rather peeved :-)
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 13:25
In all honesty, he did not ask for stuffed pasta... LOL!
 
 

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