Can’t afford it and don’t have vacation time. If you only get a week’s vacation, it’s hard to want to spend it on a destination that requires a day of travel time each way.

My dad told me that a watermelon would grow in my stomach if I aye a watermelon seed. They were so delicious, I risked it. But I worried all the time.

So many of the comments on this story are just making me sad. People are so open to trying new foods, but so unwilling to be compassionate.

I don’t know about other countries except Mexico, which definitely has plenty of kids who won’t broken bananas or wrinkly food orwhateverwhatever

Thank god there’s somebody on this earth who isn’t a psycho about all this stuff. Your kid should be glad he has such dedicated and helpful parents.

Americans don’t travel because we don’t get mandatory vacation time, those of us who do have vacation time don’t use it because they don’t want to fall behind professionally, travel time alone to and from Asia/Europe/Australia takes a full day, and it is very expensive for most Americans, i.e. there are no…

You have to continually push the envelope, yet know when to back off. Once my boys were used to homemade quesadillas, I upped the ante with some wilted spinach smuggled inside. Not for long. “What is the green stuff?” “Flavor.” Got a pass. Next, a little black bean. One balked (and continues to hate all legumes except…

I’m not sure how much of a travel preventative food is. The truth is, most of us can’t afford it. It isn’t like we can just hop on a train and be in France.

As a mother of twin two year old boys that are choosy eaters I know how soul crushing it is when your children refuse to eat. They came in to this world weighing only 4 lbs. each and now they are almost 3 and less than 30 lbs. You can’t force kids to eat: no amount of cajoling, bargaining or begging is going to change…

Back in the days of Pokemon, Welches put out a line of Pokemon themed jelly, and my picky toddlers were in heaven. Bulbasaur jelly was the ONLY jelly that was not disgusting. So, of course, they stopped selling it. I kept that same damn Bulbasaur jar for two years and secretly refilled it with regular grape jelly.…

Yeah we were totally lazy with all the gourmet meals we exposed our kid to. You’re totally right. We had a try it first before you refuse rule when he was younger. He tried lots of things and wouldn’t eat them. So chicken nuggets. He’s an adventurous eater now and I love that. And my husband works 55 plus hours a…

This is why the only thing I let me child eat is Valium, cigarettes, and cocaine. Maybe a Bloody Mary once and a while, if she needs her vegetables.

Yeah, I’d still eat it- just don’t tell me it’s what I asked for, ‘cause it's not.

Yeah, that is not cinnamon toast. If you told kid-me, “Well, I’m sorry, but this is what you get, take it or leave it,” I would probably have eaten it, but if you kept telling me that it WAS cinnamon toast, I’d have argued until lunchtime.

My son has autism and will not EVER eat a broken banana. That one made me laugh.

My kid is in middle school, and way into Insta, as he calls it, so I shared this with him. He said that the reasons were stupid, but that he would not eat any of those foods except for the shrimp, and then he would pick them off the top of the polenta.

I agree with cinnamon toast kid. Cinnamon toast is regular bread that’s toasted, buttered, and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. That’s a picture of toasted cinnamon-raisin bread. It’s not the same! f I asked for cinnamon toast and someone gave me toasted cinnamon-raisin bread, I’d be disappointed.

How to win this... Buy an economy size bag of chicken nuggets and call it a day. My kid basically didn’t die because of chicken nuggets... And I totally didn’t leave him on the side of the road with a sign that says ‘I won’t eat any of the amazing food my parents cook for me cause i’m a jerk’ His dad is a chef by the…

I know quite a number of parents who cook what they like and established the rule that the kids have to taste everything once and if they don’t like it they can have (and make themselves, once they’re old enough) a sandwich. I think that’s a pretty a good system and it’s what I would do should I ever choose to spawn.

I was all of these children, it’s a god damn miracle that my mother didn’t strangle me as a child. I lived on pancakes, rice krispies, apples and pasta for several years. To all the parents out there, you’re nightmare picky eater will grow out of it, I promise! Though I am a vegetarian now so my mum is still…