'Don't force pupils to eat all school dinner' advice

Disagree with the dessert thing, but forcing a child to eat is akin to child abuse. I was never forced to eat, I was encouraged of course when it came to certain vegetables, but then my mother didn't give me ones I clearly didn't like. She gave me ones I did, because she isn't a ******* idiot like a lot of parents.

I continue to eat a very healthy diet of mostly vegetables, whole foods and little or no processed food (outside of certain vegetarian products such as Quorn).

As I said, disagree with the skipping to dessert. But children should be encouraged to eat vegetables, best way is to make some sort of dish with the vegetables, something the kids would like to eat and get them used to it rather than dumping a load of horrible stuff on their plate and demand they eat them.

You don't eat things you don't like, why force your poor child to do so?
 
Gackt said:
You don't eat things you don't like, why force your poor child to do so?
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Younger kids aren't very rational most of the time. They will say "I don't like it!" without even knowing what it tastes like.

I see nothing wrong in making a child eat one carrot or a small portion of beans even if he hates carrots and detests beans. At the end of the day, the child is getting a free meal, and the parent is trying to get something healthy inside that child. Which is entirely noble.
 
If they really do detest it, rather than just don't fancy it, then forcing them to eat it is no different to child abuse really.

For instance to me the taste of real tomato (ketchup, etc. is fine) is something like licking a woolly jumper - makes me really cringe up - being forced to eat it would be very unpleasant. Fortunatly my parents were sensible about food for the most part, some of the previous generation to them weren't so much - I was nearly suspended from school due to narrow minded dinner ladies.
 
Rroff said:
If they really do detest it, rather than just don't fancy it, then forcing them to eat it is no different to child abuse really.
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I honestly can't believe how soft we've become.

Feeding your child greens that they don't like (even detest) = child abuse? Get out of here!
 
'In my day' we had to finish everything in our packed lunch or we weren't allowed to leave the dinner hall to go outside.

We used to hide packets of crisps under the tables, sneak the odd biscuit into the bin etc. Annoying at the time but it taught us how to be sneaky and think outside the lunch box.
 
It's all a balancing act. You can't let them just flat out refuse to eat anything by what they want. Equally it shouldn't be a huge deal to let them have pudding if they've at least made an effort with something they don't like.

We cook allsorts for our kids, mind you. We don't pander to them with endless fish fingers or whatever. They're pretty good at eating most stuff.
 
EdGey said:
'In my day' we had to finish everything in our packed lunch or we weren't allowed to leave the dinner hall to go outside.

We used to hide packets of crisps under the tables, sneak the odd biscuit into the bin etc. Annoying at the time but it taught us how to be sneaky and think outside the lunch box.
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Our daughter has to bring home anything she doesn't eat. Nightmare if she only eats half her yoghurt. Useful to see how much she eats, though.
 
I've always been taught to eat what I have, especially at a buffet when i've put it on my plate, of course.

Never done any harm to me.
 
We have a boy.who gets a plate of plain pasta and a biscuit every day. Then throws it away untouched. Why his mum pays for school dinners I don't know. But there's not much we can do about it, he doesn't seem hungry in the aft.
 
Back in my day (and before) you finished your plate or stayed at the table until you had done so, especially if you had 'greens' to eat.

No wonder children of today are (mostly) undisciplined fat scrotes*



* Massive generalisation but the point on the lack of discipline is a serious one.
 
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