Personally I think the idea behind it makes sense - ask your child what they want for breakfast, rather than just saying "here's yor cereal" but I also think the people in that article took it a little far - the child is allowed to get down from her high hair and wander about eating food? What does that teach them? I think family
Evening meals, all sitting Round together eating are incredibly Important. And, I also think its important that children
Know if you've gone to the effort of cooking somethjng, they should make the effort to eat it. I would also worry that this way would actually create a fussy eater - no, I'm Never trying the papaya, because I love grapes af pears.
And actually, I disagreed with the blogger who suggested actually that children should be treated like adults and able to
Make choices - being a child is about learning and gathering information to
Enable you to make good choices in adult life. I believe kids need some sort of structure etc
Anyway, hope I have made sense! just wanted to put
My opinion in
I'd be really interested to hear how you get on if you decide to do
This!