When your kids won't eat what you make.

[Teeki]

I struggle a bit with this. DD eats everything I make her - she likes most of it, except when it's 'boring' (meat and veg). Even if she really likes the meal she's so darn slow! We are just constantly asking her to stop mucking around, please hurry up, if you eat dinner properly you'll get some yoghurt after dinner.

My problem is, I don't want to bribe her to eat. I don't want to force her to eat quickly. I don't want to use other food as a reward for eating dinner. But I want her to not take 40 minutes to finish! I wish I could relax about it and let her eat properly in her own time, but my nights are full and I just don't have the time to sit around watching her slowly eat for that long.

[wysiwyg]

But I want her to not take 40 minutes to finish! I wish I could relax about it and let her eat properly in her own time, but my nights are full and I just don't have the time to sit around watching her slowly eat for that long.

I struggle with this too, they don't eat slowly but they do seem to eat nothing and faff for 20 mins before commencing eating which may then take 20 mins. We get home at 6:00 - DD especially really needs to be in bed by about 7:15 - and I don't like the idea of them going to bed directly after eating - so the time pressure always seems to be there. On the two days I am not at work and the weekends we tend to eat earlier and I feel less rushed and it always seems to go better. No idea on the answer - I can't create time between 18:00 and 19:15.