Did you have one growing up/do you have one now/will you have one when baby gets older?
Clean plate rule in your house? 124 votes
Yep, have to eat everything in front of you before leaving the table
Nope, for reasons I'll post below
Special Snowflake that I'll explain below
Re: Clean plate rule in your house?
We did have to stay at the table until everyone was done though. I kind of like that. My DH could go back to playing once his plate was clean - to this day, he eats crazy fast.
BFP 1/4/2014 EDD September 14 2014
Oscar born October 2011
Miscarriage at 8 weeks (August 2013)
DD due September 1, 2014
We have struggled with DD eating from the beginning. Right now we are focusing on dinner. We eat as a family. Everyone must stay at the table until the last person finishes. You don't have to eat, but that food is all you will be offered for the rest of the evening. There is always at least one thing that she likes on the plate. If she wants seconds of one item but hasn't eaten the others that's fine. When she's a little older and can understand more calmly what I'm asking, we will implement a two bite rule for new foods. Right now we are trying to just have a good relationship with dinner in general.
BFP #2 - MC Aug 2012 - D&C w/ complications
I will enforce a "trying everything on your plate" rule, or "eating most of your food, if you serve yourself", but there is no way I'm forcing a child to eat a set portion I scoop for them.
So, no clean plate rule for our family.
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So since the kids don't dish themselves up for meals they don't have to worry about it yet. We're just working on it for snacks etc right now when they decide they want a yogurt and suddenly change their mind after it has been opened. We have started adding seconds yo that though if you want more you should eat it or at least some of it!!
the only real rules we have is if you are hungry you must eat at the table. No wandering with goldfish etc.
for the following reasons:
Pedi said it promotes good eating habits.
Pedi says it reduces choking
I don't want to clean that shit off my couch.
If you can't be bothered to sit and eat you probably aren't hungry
I find my kids snack very little and eat well at meals
And they always look for a table to sit at when we're at play dates etc. it's not a battle at all since I consistently enforced this early on
As far as trying things I encourage by saying " have you tried it recently you might have changes your mind?" And leave it at that
I don't offer alternative meals
We all sit for dinner as a family
baby #3 arrived in September 2014...cannot get ticker to work no matter what I try!
We will not have the clean plate rule but will probably get LO to try everything on their plate. As an extremely picky eater myself I will hold out hope that this will encourage our child to like a variety of foods but I will not force anything if they do not like it.
I hope to do a modified approach, where my child has to have a little of everything on their plates but if they are full they can be done. As long as I know they are getting enough food and they are not going to snack poorly later, Im ok with them not eating a lot at dinner.
Me and DH are both overweight, we are now trying to cut portion sizes and start eating a little better so when LO comes we are making healthier choices
First BPP 1.24.14
EDD 9.26.14
Baby Cooper John born on 9.24.14 6lbs9oz