Chicken of the sea
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- May
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My daughter does not eat as healthy as I do. She’s 2 and whenever you ask her what she wants to eat, she says chicken and pasta or rice. Chips is another frequent response.
The other day when I was eating salmon and quinoa, I put a forkful to her mouth and told her it was chicken and rice. She fell for it and proceeded to finish off my plate. I felt victorious but a little guilty that I fooled her into thinking it was something that it wasn’t. I must admit though on another day when my sister was eating a tuna steak, I told her to tell my daughter it was chicken. She ate that too.
Any thoughts on my strategy?
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on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm by Marcela Rojas.
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If it works, why not? But first, from a grandma who’s been there, why are you asking a 2 year old what she wants to eat?
LuLu – I dont get that either. Give her the food and have her eat it. if she refuses well none of us died from missing one meal. It gets to a point where the child needs to try before they say the dont like something.
And refusing to eat should get you just that.. hungry.
I reckon that this is a pretty good tactic! At two years of age she is probably associating as much with the concepts of using the words for food than the actual food itself.