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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Wish my kids were like this. They are always given a few different veg as part of their main meals. Never forced to eat it (I don't pressure them to eat anything, besides telling them that if they don't eat the healthy stuff they aren't getting desert...if that counts as forcing ), but its fairly rare that they will eat it without some form of bribing, and sometimes refuse even with that.

I was a dodgy kid like this and the picky eating is still with me tbh. I used to refuse all veg besides carrots, where my brother and sister ate veg a fair bit (but still not as often as my parents would have liked) so it clearly wasn't anything my parents did wrong if 2/3 kids were healthier eaters

I half agree with Jaxie and half disagree, I think in some cases it's bad parenting but in others it's just down to the child.

It reminds me of a friend of my mothers, she had two boys, the first was as good as gold as a baby slept away, did what he was told when he was a toddler etc and she used to think to herself "I don't know what's wrong with people, this is easy, it's the parents fault blah blah" and then she had her second son lol and he was a tyrant she raised him exactly the same as the first, he was just a different person