Spedgrad and I went to a pediatrician visit after work. Eva's doing just fine in all aspects. Socialization, mobility, weight, length, and head diameter. Yay
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Make sure to give her whatever you're eating, not just "kid food." And by that I mean no options other than what you are eating. Not all the time, but often enough that she gets used to eating what you're eating. This was one of the bigger mistakes we made with J., with the result that we still have to make separate food for him. We made sure not to repeat it with our second....
Excellent advice from someone who's been there! The pediatrician had a similar viewpoint; we seem to have a cultural assumption that children like bland food. Not the case! We should feed -- or at least offer -- her whatever we're eating.
Granted, though, the faces that Eva makes when fed salsa or pickles are pretty amusing. :-)
Kids like whatever they get used to. Our Eva loves sushi with wasabi and spicy curries. Jacob briefly liked olives when he was little, but we didn't keep giving them to him, so he stopped liking them.
From what I've seen, it's all pretty arbitrary, and has less to do than we'd all like to believe about one's personal parenting habits.
This truly is the realm where the same family can raise priests and convicts, side-by-side. It's easy to have one kid who is courageous about new food choices and a second who is just... a total pain about it.
For what it's worth, some time around 3rd grade, the majority of kids start becoming more POLITE about food and more willing to take chances. Or that's been my observation from the kids that my own have brought home over the years...
L loves pickles and pickled food. People don't really expect a sub 1 year old to like pickled herring, but he would inhale the stuff. This only happened once while he was still nursing...mom couldn't feed him when he smelled of fish :)
On the other hand, he really doesn't like seltzer. _Every_ time I'm drinking seltzer, he demands a drink, and every time he gives the same priceless look. You would think he'd learn....
Trust me-> when the try to change their own diapers, it is generally a _bad_scene.
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Granted, though, the faces that Eva makes when fed salsa or pickles are pretty amusing. :-)
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This truly is the realm where the same family can raise priests and convicts, side-by-side. It's easy to have one kid who is courageous about new food choices and a second who is just... a total pain about it.
For what it's worth, some time around 3rd grade, the majority of kids start becoming more POLITE about food and more willing to take chances. Or that's been my observation from the kids that my own have brought home over the years...
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On the other hand, he really doesn't like seltzer. _Every_ time I'm drinking seltzer, he demands a drink, and every time he gives the same priceless look. You would think he'd learn....
Trust me-> when the try to change their own diapers, it is generally a _bad_scene.
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