Girl Who Eats Only Mcnuggets From Age 2-17, Collapses

Looks like we’ve got most of the thread ready to queue up outside her door ready to give her their nuggets.
 
It's the quality and integrity of the food item rather than going simply by its name that helps to determine whether or not it's from a 'good' source.
 
peterattheboro said:
That's some fantastic parenting right there.

My kids wouldn't last a day only eating one thing, never mind 15 years.
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Thats true, it can be a pain in the backside trying to get some kids to eat food. We cook wholesome food for out kids and the little so and so's wont eat it:( any mention of Mcdonalds and they start going crazy for it.

We have tried really hard even cooking our own baby food and it wa great to begin with but once they hit about 4 years old they got extremely picky.

But feeding your kid buggets for that long has got to be child abuse.
 
Hitman_Leon said:
My 26 month old son probably eats like a gourmet; he loves all different kinds of food, even sits with me eating olives. I think parents need to widen their tastes and not just take the easy option of (well it's what he/she likes). Talking about deficits and debt, give it 15-20 more years and the NHS will die under the strain of obesity and other purely diet related illness if not before the way things are going.

Its a hidden epidemic of self imposed and parental imposed ill health.
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I used to be like you felling all smug about the fact my kid was eating great healthy food, they would eat about everything we put in front of them. How time has changed now my daughter wont eat breakfast and refuses to eat the meals we cook for her.
 
Because they like it and can be leveraged to make them eat stuff they may not particularly like but is good for them? Who knows, they may actually start preferring good food and won't need a reward in future? It's not like he would be offering lines of coke for empty plates.
 
Some people have ridiculous diets, quite a lot actually it seems. She's probably young enough that she's getting away with it for now, but it'll catch up with her in time if that really is all she is eating (I doubt it, I bet there's an odd bowl of fortified cereal and/or fruit juice helping her out here).

I'm thankful I was made to eat my veggies when I was young, I'll try any food and there's very few foods I dislike really. My view is that you owe it to yourself to learn about nutrition and cooking, it's just a relatively simple thing which is incredibly vital.
 
cm1179 said:
i'm not a parent but why would you 'reward' eating good food with a mcdonalds? just seems a little pointless to me
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You're obviously not a parent.

It's no different to giving them some sweets, chocolate or something they know is "bad" for them. Basic psycology.
 
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Bet that girl has disgusting farts.

Bleh.

Would not!!

Ironic aint it, someone who eats well and looks after themselves would never be given an article but if you're killing yourself off (and paying for it!) SMILE and you can be in a national paper!
 
StriderX said:
Difference. :cool:
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You're rewarding good behaviour by giving them junk food. The type of junk food and the frequency at which you reward it is the only difference. Obviously it's better if you can reward a child with something that isn't junk but that isn't always entirely realistic.
 
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