My Child is a Racist!

 Oh for goodness' sake!  Then I am the racist and my son is Mahatma Ghandi!  He tries EVERYTHING once and after a very bad reaction to Indian food, I steer clear of ethnic food. My stomach is racist, not up for variations or I spend the evening in the company of the porcelain god!  I guess the fact that I won't try Vegemite makes me racist towards Australians also! 

The NCB should find something better to spend their time and money on!   

I must be selectively racist against Italians. I hate Olive Garden... and you know what? It hates me too. But I love real Italian food.

The British are being downright silly. How would this play out? "Well... I'm not racist, but my tastebuds are...."

Mine were taught actually not to say yuck...they were just taught to say "I don't really like this..." I ask them to try many things, but if they don't like it I don't force it on them. But yuck reactions are to me, rude...so I don't allow it. Find another way to express that you don't really care for it.

Mine, at age 4 and 7, don't actually know any racist words or terms either...so again..where to preschool age kiddos learn the terms and casual thoughtless comments, I wonder?

rwbeagles

Mine were taught actually not to say yuck...they were just taught to say "I don't really like this..." I ask them to try many things, but if they don't like it I don't force it on them. But yuck reactions are to me, rude...so I don't allow it. Find another way to express that you don't really care for it.

Mine, at age 4 and 7, don't actually know any racist words or terms either...so again..where to preschool age kiddos learn the terms and casual thoughtless comments, I wonder?

My children are 3 and 7 and they also do not say "yuck". They will say "I don't like this." I also find it rude, but I don't  believe saying "yuck" is a predictor to racism either. My son did not know any racist words or terms either, we have been very careful to teach both children acceptance and kindness, but within 1 month of being IN PRESCHOOL he was coming home asking me what some shocking words meant!! When I called the school I was told "Those words are not ever said here. He must have picked it up at your house." I continued to fight and argue and 2 months later 2 parents were taken to court over the words their children were teaching others (not by me, by the school) and charges were pressed! You wouldn't believe the words if I told you. *shudders*

5of my Grandkids have lived with me since brith andother 5 live in California.   My Alabama 5 you might have thought would be the ones with a less sophisticated palate... after all this is the land of Grits and seafood right??

Oddly enough it turned out the other way , My Californian grandkids have more issues with trying new things, they are loud in their protests and refuse anything that may be different,  I HATE taking them to a restaurant I can count on them behaving badly, wandering about , interupting and telling the servers or strangers how yeachy their food is.  The parents think it is assertive and funny, I find it rude.

Being a parent/grandparent who values manners highly I can not deal with them often.  They need to be the center of attention all the time. They have some favorite foods and demand them in excessive quantities and anything new or unfamilar is scraped to the other side of the plate My Alabama Grands know it is not worth it to act out in this manner. They are not perfect but they are caring and concerned about the feelings of others. I have also impressed upon them that you find adventures everywhere. It may be in a different restaurant, or maybe a a simple walk wher we can talk about any and everything.

We took all 5 and one set of parents to a Japanese Hibatchi restaurant ( We now have 3 !!) and they were of course fascinated , but the manager even came over to compliment us on their excellent manners. They tried everything and if they liked it told everyone around us how good it was. They have been known to yeck over things, The 8 year old hates catsup, the 6 year old is not fond of   onions  the 5 year old hates Green beans, the 4 year old hates mustard, the 3 year old cooked squash.   The family rule is if it is new you MUST try a bite, if this an old dislike parents will try to leave it off. They can pick ONE item on any given plate and ignore it.  Saying Yeck loudly is a guarantee you will sit there till you eat the offending item.

Bonita of Bwana  

 Samantha loves chinese food. If you ask her where she wants to eat she will always say chinese. She gets mad when we pass the chinese place to eat somewhere else.

She is a great eater though. But she will not eat broccoli or califlower. We had gone out to eat one day and my food came with a side of steamed broccoli,califlower, and carrots. That isnt a pleasant smell. She wrinkled up her nose and said it was stinky. She tried it anyways. She didnt like it right away but that girl just kept trying to eat it. She finally looked at me and said she didnt like it. I told her that was fine she didnt have to keep eating something she didnt like.  

kle1986

But she will not eat broccoli or califlower

My son's two favorites! You know what his least favorite foods are? BRACE YOURSELF!

Cotton Candy

Hot Dogs

Honey

Chocolate/strawberry Milk (milk must be served WHITE no exceptions LOL)

My daughter took after me in that she loves her junk food lol. My son....who knows where he came from, dh hates veggies! Probably aliens.

Samantha wont drink milk unless it was in a bowl of cereal. I have tried all the flavors and she just wont drink it. Gotta been in a bowl of cereal.

She wont eat green beans unless they come from someone else's plate. That drives me crazy and JJ lets her do it.

Other than that she is a great eater. She loves fruit.

JJ or I dont like raw tomatoes. Samantha on the other hand cant get enough of them.

She did take after JJ on the junk food part also. 

 That is a silly notion~

On the other hand teaching table manners is not.  I try to instill in my children that it is not polite to say that "this is not good", while having dinner.  What is better manners is to just eat what you like and say nothing.  If the cook requests "don't you like that"..Then a polite response is fine.  Otherwise we don't say anything esp not "yuck"  That is just rude.  But hardly "racist".  

I think society is sometimes way off base. Who is the wacko who came up with that gem?

If someone puts a plate in front of me with a piece of red meat that isn't thoroughly and completely cooked all the way through (that means not one tiny sliver of pink showing) or a runny egg ... I'm going to say "YUCK!"

Joyce

Well then I'm rude AND racist.  Vegemite?  "YUK!"  Kimchi?  "YUK!"  Limberger cheese?  "YUK!"  If it smells like poop, it's not going in my mouth and I'm going to say YUK. 

And FWIW, my daugher's vegetarian, politically correct, Montessori teacher asked us to please stop sending her to school with her favorite lunch, tuna fish, because it made her sick to her stomach and she said "YUK!" every time Madeleine opened a can.   My rude kids learned it at home AND school! 

My kids have been taught not to say "yuck", not because it's racist, but because it's rude to the preparer of the food. They're kids though, after all, and sometimes they express their dislike anyway. The thing I have the most trouble with is sandwiches, my son won't eat a cold sandwich??? has to be grilled. They're good about ethnic foods though, DH and I both work in restaurants and are pretty adventurous when it comes to food, so the kids are too. A favorite of Mr. "I won't eat a ham sandwich" is raw tuna and seaweed. Go figure.

I never realized that my mother was teaching me to be non-racist through food. I mean I was raised to be non-racist, was a little kid in Los Angeles after the first Watts riots. Everyone got along. I did not hear a racial slur until we moved to Texas. It was a culture shock.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I hated brussel sprouts. But my mom and grandmother liked to cook them at least once every week or so. Saying "yuck" would have gotten me slapped in some cases. But we had a choice. You can eat what's on the plate or you can go hungry. And if you won't eat the single serving given to you, you won't get dessert. So, I learned to eat brussel sprouts first so that it would not be the last taste in my mouth.

In my life, I have been without a home a few times and once, I went 5 days without food (not my choice). So, I accept graciously what is offered, even if it isn't my favorite. I will have some of what the host has offered. If I didn't like but the host or hostess asks me how it is, I will lie convincingly. Going through some of the hard knocks of life teaches you some things.

dogslife

Who is the wacko who came up with that gem

Exactly.

So they are only racist if they say "yuck" to foreign food, and they're just not refined individuals if they say it to domestic food?