Food Problems

I have ruined my children.

I didn't mean to.

I have tried to set a good example.

I eat my vegetables.

I hide when I eat my sweets.

I don't let them know when I don't like something, I even eat things I don't like.

So how did they figure me out?

I didn't mean to teach them to be picky. But they are. And it is so frustrating because I know how they feel. I don't like forcing them to eat the foods they don't like because I am right there with them. But I don't let them know I feel bad for them. And I do make them take at least one bite and then there is nothing else offered to them until the next meal.

Danielle is what prompted this post. Yesterday I tried to offer her everything under the sun for breakfast and she refused everything under the sun. I offered oatmeal, toast, eggs any way she would like them cooked, bacon, and on and on and on. The only thing she wanted was a bowl of cereal with milk, which is off-limits to her because she repeatedly pours the cereal with a ton of milk and then leaves that bowl there with only a few bites taken and the whole thing going to waste. She can have anything else, but no cereal.

So you know what she matter-of-factly said to me?

"It's okay, they serve breakfast at school and I will just eat when I get there."

I couldn't believe my ears. We do not eat breakfast at school! I don't want to block her account, but OH MY GOSH!!!