What To Do If Your Kid Is A 'Whiteatarian' Who Eats Only White Food
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If your child insists on only pasta with butter, it doesn't have to be that way forever. (You also don't have to cater to them.)
It was parents’ weekend at my freshman daughter’s college, and we were treating her to dinner at an off-campus bistro. The waitress arrived, and she gave her order: “I’ll have the baked salmon with a side of sauteed spinach, please.” I dropped my menu, my jaw and the mistaken notion that I knew what this kid had been up to since we’d dropped her off at her dorm a couple of months ago. I had spent most of the past 18 years trying to nudge her — sometimes gently, sometimes with growing desperation — into eating something, anything, other than noodles with butter and salt, half a bagel with plain cream cheese or — her true love — Rold Gold Tiny Twist pretzels. The idea of fish had always made her shudder. The mere mention of “green things” like spinach could lead to tears. So what was up with her dinner order tonight?More Related News