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As every parent knows, kids can be remarkably fickle when it comes to food. Seemingly on the slightest whim dietary requirements can drastically change, now your little bundle of joy will only eat foods that are orange, for example.
Luckily, for the majority of kids fussy eating is just a phase. We all know that it just comes with the territory, and we need to find creative and funny ways to get around it.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of hilarious tweets from parents in the midst of dinnertime dramas, if you’ve had kids yourself you’ll be sure to raise a knowing smile (or grimace). Check them out below and tell us your experiences in the comments!
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PsychoPrincess 8 years ago
My mother did that to me and I did that to the floor and I will be doing this to my children cuz it's just good parenting
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Mackie Braden 8 years ago
Boy, I’ll say it counts. But there’s always the old “Fine, you can go to bed hungry.”
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Lillian Chesak 8 years ago
I think that's natural... I mean, doughnuts are the best thing ever. They make the perfect sacrifices
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Hanaé Thouvnn 8 years ago
This sounds like every cat I have had. "Hey, HEY, give me some of your food, it's probably delicious... thanks human but this is disgusting. HEY I bet this piece is AMAZING, give me some".
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Blue Cicada 8 years ago
1 bag of Goldfish crackers stashed on a top shelf five feet from the floor, one 5 minute bathroom stop, 1 active 2 year old and 1 kitchen chair = totally trashed living room.
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Random Panda 8 years ago
I never get that... Toddlers sucking on a piece of something until it looks like it's been half digested already and parents then eating that disgusting goop 🤢
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just a thought ! 8 years ago
This sounds too much like me but I don't even have kids ...I just say it to myself !😂😂
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Dani Donovan 8 years ago
When my son was almost 2, I caught him chewing on our dog’s rubber bone. And yet they survive.
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Blue Cicada 8 years ago
4 year old: if Grandma dies, will the hearse take her body to the cemetery? Me: yes 4: can we ride in the limousine?!
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Vincent Van Laaren 8 years ago
Do they actually have 2 matching socks? we just let them wear different socks and call it haute couture :)
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Helen Burgess 8 years ago
it's like that for the first few years... then they start devouring everything that isn't nailed down.
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JillVille Child Care 8 years ago
Oh yes, the Spicy phase, haha, don't miss this one at all! Hang in there!
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PsychoPrincess 8 years ago
My mother always told me that unless I try it once how my supposed to know whether I like it? but she wouldn't force me to eat it afterwards if I didn't like it.
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Sarah Birch 8 years ago
My second son didn't tell me he didn't like the béchamel sauce and cheese on lasagna for three years. He likes the rest so would sneak it to the dog and ask for more. I made it more often because he "liked" it. The other three kids do actually like my lasagna, I hope?!?
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Sarah Birch 8 years ago
In the uk all dog and cat food are tasted by humans and have to be suitable for human consumption. Due to this my pets regularly dine on minced lamb, chicken or beef while I have noodles!
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Leslie Mihalik 8 years ago
OMG IT NEVER FAILED the MINUTE I put the first bite in my mouth my daughter: I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM...ONCE she asked BEFORE my food came and I was like AHHH NOW is my chance to EAT W/O interruption....NOPE first bite:I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM...AGAIN
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Baked Panda 8 years ago
Lol I hid mine in frozen veggie boxes... broccoli never tasted better👍
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Taryn Wallace 8 years ago
Ok this one bugs me come on people control your children...some of us (who don't have kids and I'm sure some who have them) don't want your kids Germy gross paws all over community food
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Ashiah Rainwing 8 years ago
My mom loved to try this. Once everyone fled the house when she craftily substituted goat's milk for cows milk. The house reeked for a week.
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Leslie Mihalik 8 years ago
LOVE being told when your out to eat with your kids and a friend WHO HAS NO KIDS HOW to parent them so they will sit and behave...I just smile and think BACK to my single days of when I WAS THE PERFECT parent too...BEFORE KIDS...ME NOW: holding food shaking:YOU'LL EAT IT IF I LET YOU EAT IN THE LIVINGROOM....GO GO PLEASE EAT IT IN THE LIVINGROOM !!!!
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jo_shortland 8 years ago
My school does't do this, I end up with a lunch box full of bits of crisps and smeared Yoghurt
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Hey It's Me 4 years ago
Yeah your son is spoiled. Hopefully not, but he’s probably a brat too.
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Aunt Messy 8 years ago
Tell ya what, Pat. YOU have a litter or two. The human race is in no danger. Of course, it's the smart people who don't have kids, so there's that.
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Cam Craig 8 years ago
What happened to parents with backbones. I was 17 when I had my first one, and did all this crazy stuff to get him to eat. He is still a picky eater. 4.5 years later, I figured it out. As a toddler, his snacks were mixed vegetables. What we ate he ate. Today, eats well, willing to try new stuff, no eating issues. YOU are the parent. start early and NEVER give up your authority.
Mary Jane Andrews 8 years ago
Pappy: God knows everything ..........Grandson ........I bet He even knows SQUAT!
Eva Tóthová 8 years ago
Not that it helped always, but quite often i put food on a fork or spoon when my daughter was younger, then i turned around and she ate it. i had to act VERY surprised that it disappeared. and as long as i was acting VERY surprised after every spoonfull/forkfull, she ate her whole meal. of course there were days when nothing helped... (maybe this will inspire someone struggling to feed their little ones)
Shauday Smith 8 years ago
these are problems i will never know. ::sits on couch with the most finicky dog whom i go through great pains to find dog specific food he'll eat:: ....yes i compared your picky child to my picky dog...
H.I 8 years ago
I almost gave up but then i saw "32 more" so i went all the way
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Nia Hilton Wohl 8 years ago
I volunteer at a preschool. When a child decides that they do not like a certain food, I make them take three bites. If they don't like it after three bites they don't have to eat it. Usually this does not happen.
Cindy Thurlow 8 years ago
So the other day my grandson comes up and tells me his horn (meaning his butt) is out. I said out of what? He then says out of beeps ( meaning his farts). LMAO
Maggie Collins 8 years ago
I read these to my mom she says: "Well, if the moms weren't texting during dinner her kids wouldn't be doing these things to get attention". Did I want to slap her??? Yes. Did I slap her??? No.
Lisa Welch 8 years ago
I'm out the other side now with my son being 26 but I'd do it all again in a heartbeat... Kids are the best thing to make you realise just how not important a clean house is, a cream carpet or the lovely outfit you'd put them in ten minutes ago.. Kids, bang those saucepans, dig deep in that mud and climb every tree 🤣🤣🤣
Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago
Same here. "I hate beans! I hate mashed potatoes! I hate chicken! I'll throw it on your face!" And these were her favorite foods. I'm facing this again with my mother, with Alzheimer's.
Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago
I'm not complaining, just sharing - because it's so similar. I treat her like the extremely intelligent adult that she is but, at the same time, I also have to deal with her cognitive and comportamental deficit - like when she refuses to eat.
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Misterscooter 8 years ago
The four year old also will want anything you'll make him...until he sees it on the plate.
Misterscooter 8 years ago
4 year old: *walks clear across house. "Can I have a snack?" Me: "Weren't you just in the same room as your mother?" 4yo: "Why?"
Markus McCloud 8 years ago
The odd thing about my childhood is that I was actually more of a veggie person than a meat person. I positively devoured my brussel sprouts, but the cube steak always made me gag. Nowadays, I'll eat almost anything... except for (unpickled) cucumbers. Those still make me gag.
Bipin Gaur 8 years ago
I was shocked to see so many people upvoting and liking the toddler passed out. All I felt was a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Zori the degu 8 years ago
We are currently having psychology classes at school and I'm thinking of continuing my studies as an amateur psychologist. One of the things I'd definitely gonna find out is what the hell is making those bloody screaming toddlers refuse to eat anything parents give them. Is it parents' fault? Or most little kids are simply genetically programmed to be annoying little a******s? I mean, there's a phase with children between 2 and 3 and 1/2 years old when their brains are developing and they act like they are demented, but what about those between 4 and 6 years of age?
Happiness is Hippo 8 years ago
It seems like you're saying that you believe a child's brain is fully developed by 4 years old and that they should think and behave like miniature adults thereafter. I'm not sure psychology is the right subject for you, amateur or otherwise.
Load More Replies... Aunt Messy 8 years ago
Tell ya what, Pat. YOU have a litter or two. The human race is in no danger. Of course, it's the smart people who don't have kids, so there's that.
Load More Replies... Cam Craig 8 years ago
What happened to parents with backbones. I was 17 when I had my first one, and did all this crazy stuff to get him to eat. He is still a picky eater. 4.5 years later, I figured it out. As a toddler, his snacks were mixed vegetables. What we ate he ate. Today, eats well, willing to try new stuff, no eating issues. YOU are the parent. start early and NEVER give up your authority.
Mary Jane Andrews 8 years ago
Pappy: God knows everything ..........Grandson ........I bet He even knows SQUAT!
Eva Tóthová 8 years ago
Not that it helped always, but quite often i put food on a fork or spoon when my daughter was younger, then i turned around and she ate it. i had to act VERY surprised that it disappeared. and as long as i was acting VERY surprised after every spoonfull/forkfull, she ate her whole meal. of course there were days when nothing helped... (maybe this will inspire someone struggling to feed their little ones)
Shauday Smith 8 years ago
these are problems i will never know. ::sits on couch with the most finicky dog whom i go through great pains to find dog specific food he'll eat:: ....yes i compared your picky child to my picky dog...
H.I 8 years ago
I almost gave up but then i saw "32 more" so i went all the way
Load More Replies... Nia Hilton Wohl 8 years ago
I volunteer at a preschool. When a child decides that they do not like a certain food, I make them take three bites. If they don't like it after three bites they don't have to eat it. Usually this does not happen.
Cindy Thurlow 8 years ago
So the other day my grandson comes up and tells me his horn (meaning his butt) is out. I said out of what? He then says out of beeps ( meaning his farts). LMAO
Maggie Collins 8 years ago
I read these to my mom she says: "Well, if the moms weren't texting during dinner her kids wouldn't be doing these things to get attention". Did I want to slap her??? Yes. Did I slap her??? No.
Lisa Welch 8 years ago
I'm out the other side now with my son being 26 but I'd do it all again in a heartbeat... Kids are the best thing to make you realise just how not important a clean house is, a cream carpet or the lovely outfit you'd put them in ten minutes ago.. Kids, bang those saucepans, dig deep in that mud and climb every tree 🤣🤣🤣
Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago
Same here. "I hate beans! I hate mashed potatoes! I hate chicken! I'll throw it on your face!" And these were her favorite foods. I'm facing this again with my mother, with Alzheimer's.
Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago
I'm not complaining, just sharing - because it's so similar. I treat her like the extremely intelligent adult that she is but, at the same time, I also have to deal with her cognitive and comportamental deficit - like when she refuses to eat.
Load More Replies... Misterscooter 8 years ago
The four year old also will want anything you'll make him...until he sees it on the plate.
Misterscooter 8 years ago
4 year old: *walks clear across house. "Can I have a snack?" Me: "Weren't you just in the same room as your mother?" 4yo: "Why?"
Markus McCloud 8 years ago
The odd thing about my childhood is that I was actually more of a veggie person than a meat person. I positively devoured my brussel sprouts, but the cube steak always made me gag. Nowadays, I'll eat almost anything... except for (unpickled) cucumbers. Those still make me gag.
Bipin Gaur 8 years ago
I was shocked to see so many people upvoting and liking the toddler passed out. All I felt was a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Zori the degu 8 years ago
We are currently having psychology classes at school and I'm thinking of continuing my studies as an amateur psychologist. One of the things I'd definitely gonna find out is what the hell is making those bloody screaming toddlers refuse to eat anything parents give them. Is it parents' fault? Or most little kids are simply genetically programmed to be annoying little a******s? I mean, there's a phase with children between 2 and 3 and 1/2 years old when their brains are developing and they act like they are demented, but what about those between 4 and 6 years of age?
Happiness is Hippo 8 years ago
It seems like you're saying that you believe a child's brain is fully developed by 4 years old and that they should think and behave like miniature adults thereafter. I'm not sure psychology is the right subject for you, amateur or otherwise.
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