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Eating issues at school
My eldest son (he is nearly 6) came home from school yesterday and said that he hade been made to eat three bites of banana. He hates bananas and we do not make him eat anything that he does not want. What would you do about this (the forcing him to eat banana, not the fact that he does not like bananas).
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I can assure you that there are some horrible bullying dinner ladies about. Having worked in schools I think the job attracts quite bullying types. Of course there are some lovely ones as well. My son was forced to eat a brussel sprout once at school and swallowed it whole to get rid of it.
I do so sympathise. I absolutely hate bananas and was once made to stay at the table by my grandmother until I had eaten my banana for pudding. She told me that it was just a silly fad! After a while, she mashed it up and poured condensed milk on it, which only made it worse!!
Children can be faddy, but we have to remember that there will be foods they simply hate and can't eat - after all adults are just the same - why shouldn't children dislike some foods. My son hasn't eaten an egg since he was about 9 months old.
Poor kids - 'orrible dinner ladies! (Well some anyway).
When I was just 6 years old, I remember being 'forced' to eat macaroni pudding, but every time I put the disgusting rubbery tubes in my mouth I gagged. The dinner lady insisted I ate it, but I just couldn't & ended up being sick, bringing up my first course. I was so upset & also hungry for the rest of the day!
To this day I cannot even look at cooked macaroni or pasta tubes without gagging - so you see it had an adverse effect on me!
Never force children to eat what they don't want to eat, we didn't do it with our children & they have both ended up being quite adventurous cooks - unlike me!
It is another form of bullying. Horrible person. Just another bully.
I hope the person who forced your son to eat something he did not want to eat gets the same treatment and see how they like it.
Just because they are children does NOT give another person (even more so an adult) a right to make someone eat something.
This is how eating problems are started.
I can understand you have to gently encourage a child to eat a bit more or to just try a little bit but forcing serves no purpose with a child, it just achieves the opposite effect.
I just can't imagine any adult puttinf up with this so why the hell should a child.
Big bully.
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