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Fozzie_Bear  Posts: 2,490
Registered: 2001-12-20 01:43:43
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vn_anon63xxx posted:
Does that mean she doesn't swallow?
are you implying that she spits out the  ?
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Ah-Schoo Title: Fuzzy Caterpillar of Friendliness
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Registered: 2000-8-11 09:05:29
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Jezza_Belle posted:
Sorry, my first reply on this was a bit on the emotional side, and this one is likely to be as well. Having had two children with different food issues, it makes me a bit emotional for people to jump down on the mother for something she could never have solved on her own. it doesn't excuse her lack of finding help for her daughter however.
My son who is now 16 had Apraxia, he didn't learn to speak until he was 5 years old. he spent pre-school and kindergarten in the slow kid classroom because of it. He was able to understand speech fine, and he tried to talk but it wouldn't come out right. He spent from the ages of 2-6 in intensive speech therapy to overcome his disorder. He used sign language in the meantime, which helped him not get overly frustrated with being unable to communicate. Along with the speech problems came food problems. He wouldn't eat cereal with milk, only cereal with yogurt. He only likes Hamburgers plain with ketchup on the side to dip in. He only likes campbells chicken noodle soup (don't try to fool him with generic either!)
We've worked him up to eating some more things now, but his main go to is still a plain hamburger. I think he humors me more than he tries to humor his dad, he'll try new stuff for me because I pester him about it. He'll almost always say something is ok, and then not finish it. he's a good kid, polite, and doesn't want to be a bother or be rude and say he doesn't like something I make for him.
My daughter was allergic to everything, we didn't know it until she was almost a year old. She was tested for the top ten allergies in children, and was allergic to 4 of them. Milk, Soy, Corn, and Peanut.
That doesn't leave much on the list of things she could eat, plus by this time she had it in her head that eating hurts. Her first doctor would tell me "she won't starve herself"... yet she was skinny and had a distended belly like an Ethiopian. The doctor told me she was doing just fine, I told the doctor she was nuts and scheduled an appointment outside of the "group death" network, where we finally got the answers. She had an almost constant ear infection until she was 18 months old because of the milk allergies, her formula was this nasty stuff that was horrendously expensive and smelled disgusting. After she got off the formula she had goat's milk. It took her YEARS to catch up, and until her auto immune disease popped up last year, she was always under weight. (5'8" and 115 lbs)
Let me tell you, there is nothing like standing in a grocery store looking at the label of every can or box of anything you buy trying to find stuff without Corn Syrup in it. Having your child only want things she couldn't have.
Except the difference here is that you clearly worked at solving the problems and figuring out what was wrong, AND you didn't wait 15 years.
It's not entirely clear that nugget girls mother even thought there was a serious problem.
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-Accident-  Title: Waiting to happen
Posts: 660
Registered: 2000-8-24 09:49:04
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Arc_DT posted:
Dark_EternalFF posted:
Arc_DT posted:
Gaevren posted:
GUESS WHAT. YOU REFUSE THEM NUGGETS AND EVENTUALLY THEY GET HUNGRY ENOUGH TO EAT OTHER THINGS
It's always pretty damn easy to spot the non-parents on the thread. Mom tried that... the girl decided she'd rather starve.
A poor troll, even for you.
Probably because I wasn't trolling. You'd be amazed how much of what I post is dead f**king serious.
My kid isn't this extreme, just the normal 11-year-old girl whom I have to fight to eat her vegetables, but I'm certainly not going to starve her out. I've learned what works and what doesn't to motivate her, and starving her wouldn't phase her in the least. I also have vivid memories of a specific incident as a child where I dearly wanted to eat my dinner, but I couldn't hold it down, and was forced to sit there all night.
I've lost an insane amount of weight, but I'm still a big guy, and I want my daughter to have a healthy and normal relationship with food. Therefore, I don't do that sort of thing to her.
I have to say I'm on yours and Jezza's side here. My younger daughter loves food and would eat anything, but my older daughter has been picky ever since she was a baby. I think she has two issues, actually: 1) control (we saw this with her even when she was BREASTFEEDING and I'm mostly to blame for that, my milk came out too fast for her) and 2) texture, she rejects anything that does not have a uniform texture, from breads to yogurts to meats. Her grandfather has texture issues with food as well, so I'm pretty sure I know where she gets it from.
We make healthy food available to our kids, but out of the things that are available, they can choose what they want. Over the course of a week, they usually manage to get enough of a variety in. I do give them vitamin supplements. Since my daughter already has control issues around food, I think it could be dangerous to start a power struggle in this area. Letting her choose from a set of healthy options gives her the chance to have input on her diet, without letting her go hog-wild eating crap. I don't want to try to FORCE her to eat something, because I am afraid that may set a dangerous precedent. Food is only food, we should not allow ourselves to become neurotic about it, and lots of people DO develop disorders around food, from simple "eating for comfort" that leads to obesity, to bulimia and anorexia. We have had numerous conversations with her pediatrician about her eating habits, usually involving her as she is a very intelligent and responsible kid.
I have never believed in forcing children to eat foods they don't like. My parents never did it to me, and I have always maintained a healthy weight and am happy to try many new foods. I encourage my kids to try a bite of a new food, but I don't tell them they have to clear their plate or anything like that. I've seen people who were raised that way, and too many of them are overweight now and will eat whatever isn't nailed down. Let's face it, right now food scarcity is not a problem for most of us in the First World.
I do think the parents in this article should have seen a specialist for help with their child's eating difficulties, if they didn't. At the least it is something that should have come up during regular visits to their daughter's pediatrician, who could have referred them to more specialized help if more straightforward alternatives didn't work.
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vn_anon63xxx  Title: Darwin's Revenge
Posts: 251
Registered: 2001-3-12 14:43:10
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No wonder kids are so screwed up these days. "Parents" want to treat each kid like a unique snowflake.
I grew up having meals at a giant round table with two parents and 10 siblings. We all ate the same thing. We ate what was served. Or, we went to bed hungry.
It's just not that complicated. It doesn't take a psychoanalyst.
It takes A PARENT.
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Akza Posts: 271
Registered: 2002-9-8 18:02:25
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Jezza_Belle posted:
My daughter was allergic to everything, we didn't know it until she was almost a year old. She was tested for the top ten allergies in children, and was allergic to 4 of them. Milk, Soy, Corn, and Peanut.
Put her down and get a new one.
Seriously, what's with all the snowflakes having allergies to everything now? I'd slit my wrists if I couldnt have milk or peanuts. I luv cakes and peanut butter.
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Kordirn Title: Pirate Prince
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Registered: 2004-4-19 01:15:26
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Its not necessarily permanent. I was allergic to milk when I was a baby as well. I am no longer allergic to it.
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-Kruugar-  Posts: 210
Registered: 2005-3-4 14:35:00
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Kordirn posted:
Its not necessarily permanent. I was allergic to milk when I was a baby as well. I am no longer allergic to it.
Sometimes parents take it a bit too far. The longer your child is not exposed, the worse the allergy gets. My sister-in law was always ranting about peanuts. I asked her if she had been exposed to it before. She said "  es, I took benadryl and I was ok afterward"... I almost a laughed at her... for all of the special considerations made to keep things peanut free, she has a relatively mild allergy. If she had a severe allergy and was exposed, she'd need hospital intervention if she didn't have an epi pen.
It becomes a psychological reaction more than anything else. That same sister in law was stung by a bee... Thought she was having an allergic reaction... went hospital... nope... she's having a panic attack that she might be allergic to the bee sting... lol. It's not entirely her fault though, her parents babied her/were over cautious, creating her psychological problem.
My son was allergic to eggs when he was first trying food. Broke out in hives around his face if he ate them. Over time, his allergy went away. We kept giving him eggs because it was a mild allergy. Eats them all the time now, no reaction.
That is not to say that people don't have severe allergies, obviously some people do. But being allergic and stuffing up is a lot different than going into anaphylactic shock. We are way over cautious for the moderate to mild (annoying but harmless) levels.
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myxomatosis8 Title: amateur zookeeper
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Registered: 2001-7-14 23:45:21
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vn_anon63xxx posted:
No wonder kids are so screwed up these days. "Parents" want to treat each kid like a unique snowflake.
I grew up having meals at a giant round table with two parents and 10 siblings. We all ate the same thing. We ate what was served. Or, we went to bed hungry.
It's just not that complicated. It doesn't take a psychoanalyst.
It takes A PARENT.
I do often wonder at the multitudes of children with novel disorders nowadays that require near-constant therapy, intervention and help. I guess they would have just been left to waste away and die some four decades ago?
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vn_anon63xxx Title: Darwin's Revenge
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myxomatosis8 posted:
vn_anon63xxx posted:
No wonder kids are so screwed up these days. "Parents" want to treat each kid like a unique snowflake.
I grew up having meals at a giant round table with two parents and 10 siblings. We all ate the same thing. We ate what was served. Or, we went to bed hungry.
It's just not that complicated. It doesn't take a psychoanalyst.
It takes A PARENT.
I do often wonder at the multitudes of children with novel disorders nowadays that require near-constant therapy, intervention and help. I guess they would have just been left to waste away and die some four decades ago?
I believe you should train kids just like you train dogs.
You can't let one dog up on the couch and leave the other one outside in a cage. You don't have one master giving the dog a treat for obeying the sit command and have the other master beat the dog for the same behavior.
Treat them all the same and they will be happy, healthy and normal.
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Caoilin Title: Instigator
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Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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Fozzie_Bear posted:
Caoilin posted:
FineYoungCannibals posted:
my daughter calls McDonald's peasant food
we eat there maybe once a year
i love her
haha. i've been calling all chains peasant food since i was like 5. my great aunt was from england and was snarky as fk with that kind of stuff. 
so thats where you learned it from eh
well that and anytime my mom makes certain meals she tells me "peasant food" when i ask.
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