is there a hope in hell

i totally agree with this, if the choice is there for kids they will be picky and fussy, yet if a meal is provided that everyone else is eating they shud either eat it or go hungry, they'll change there tune eventually, i work with children if only we could imply thses rules children wouldnt be so bloody fussy! however i do think that the food needs to be exciting and appealing for them

Agree with the rest of what you said, but that's a load of shit. It's like saying you can tell your kids playing with knives and fire is dangerous but you can't stop them doing it.

Being a parent is about discipline imo. You dman well CAN make the little fuckers eat what you want them too, and not what they want.

it can be difficult to put into practice. you've got to be inventive and find things they like YET be strict with them at ALL times - if it was only ever down to 2 parents - it might be straight forward - however in reality, grandparents feed them, relatives treat them - kids quickly learn how to get what they want from who they want.

i made my little girl eat her dinner once. it took 2 hours. with crying involved. from both of us. it bordered on cruelty. but i had a point to make - which was probably undone the next day by our lass

I ate what my parents ate as soon as I was off baby food. If I didn't eat it, I wouldn't have got anything else. It's up to the parents to make sure that whatever discipline they enforce is also enforced by whoever else looks after the children.

I've looked after nieces and nephews, and wouldn't dream of going against any rules their parents already have in place with them. I think that is out of order.

The main problem is, with many kids no-one appears to be sticking to any kind of rules. How the hell is a kid supposed to learn?

Fucking hell, nucastle boards very own Jamie Oliver!

I'm sure I've had that done to me when I was a kid too. I don't think it's cruelty, just instilling a bit of discipline. I see oyour point about how easily it could be undone though.

Me little brother is rather fat like, he's 9 years old. It's hard for me mam to stop him eating shit cos he just twists on.

I was fat from the age of 7, I lost most of it when I went to comp, then I lost the rest when I left school.

you saying my tongue is too big for my mouth

He should be taken away from his mother and put through some harsh PT the fat little waster.

I'm a parent and I have always tried to make sure my kid eats well but it really isn't easy. School meals are really rubbish and thats the main food of the day. there are vending machines everywhere selling junk. Kids TV is one long list of shit junk food ads and kids are very easily swayed by clever ads. Any bit of pocket money can be spent on sweets. Mealtimes can turn into battlegrounds as your nicely cooked meal gets rejected or only the bits that are bad for you get eaten. You are tired, the homework has to get done it is exhausting sometimes and every single tv programme for kids casts parents as stupid know nothings who deserve to be laughed at or conned or ignored.
that woman looked like she was fat herself so maybe she knows no better.
rant rant rant......

All she has to do is make the fat useless kid do some exercise. She sounds like a pathetic waste of a human being.

Anyone who lets their child get like that is weak.

my mum used to do that with me.. the time my sister sneezed all over a plate of sheperds pie, causing me to point blank refuse to eat the remainder, led my mum (who had her back turned at the time) to then make me sit and eat every last scrap of cold snotty germ ridden mince and potato for a good hour or so while my sister sat grinning on like a cheshire cat..

unlucky!

Parents fault for buying the junk in the first place. But then again the lad has a bit of a appetite

Do you blame your parents?

Don't pick on Darude you ugly mind-numbing bint.

Sorry sir

For a second, I actually thought you were the kid in question...

Watch it, you'll get wrong for picking on him