RE: Force-feeding babies: an archaic and dangerous practice
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The pattern followed by your children is very similar to that followed by mine. The first one eats everything, is happy to try out new food and new tastes, etc. On the contrary, the second one is a disaster. He is now six, and it is a pain to get him even trying a lot of things (like simple vegetables).
We have however never forced him to eat anything. I didn’t even know this was a thing today. As you said, it sounds barbarian. For what concerns my youngster, we usually ask him to try three times something he does not like (to be sure he does not like it), we insist (sometimes quite heavily) and we are very patient. So far, it worked well enough. He is not eating a lot what he does not like, but with patience he ends up trying despite of being not happy with certain types of food.
That's a really good approach. In our own case, the fact that there's still an option of being breastfed seems to make him lazy to try out other stuff. So, for now, we are just taking it easy with him until he's properly weaned.
Ah yeah this is the un-easy transition for some kids. Then we have to check out how this will evolve. Good luck with this period of your kid's life :)