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Children’s curiosity
I am sure kids and adults alike get a little curious, I did before I realized I would need to be on one myself and no one explained it better than a friend of the family. She said something to the effect that sometimes since we are all a little different, we might need more or less of different things than our friends and family do.
Yes it will be a bit challenging to explain it to the children. I kinda think that they will pay more attention to the one who is not so familiar to them. So, it will be great if you can get a teacher or the Principal explaining it to them.
Perhaps you could let them sample new foods occasionally? If they were sincerely curious about the taste of foods you could allow them to pick one food per week to try, and give them a very small quantity to sample. The downside to this would be that they might find something they really like and then it would be even harder for them not to have it.
I like your idea veggie but I think I would discuss it with the doctor or nutrittionist first before implementing it so they could give you some tips on how to do it right and a list of “safer” foods to try.
Mandel - Feb 08, 2010 06:20pmI am sure kids and adults alike get a little curious, I did before I realized I would need to be on one myself and no one explained it better than a friend of the family. She said something to the effect that sometimes since we are all a little different, we might need more or less of different things than our friends and family do.
That’s a really good and simple way to explain i to adults and children alike. I think especially with children keeping the explanation as simple as possible is very important.
Just explain that like someone else has red hair or brown hair, they have this as a difference. I’ve not come to the point where I have to explain things to my baby but I know I will eventually. I don’t see a problem in doing so though.
It can be extremely difficult for young children who don’t always understand why they aren’t allowed to have certain foods. You just have to continue to explain that some foods could harm them and they will eventually begin to understand.
We can tell them plainly that they will get sick if they eat this kind of food. They would surely ask why then that is the time we explain to them about differences.
We can let them taste occasionally to satisfy their curiosity but let us tell them that it will be bad for them if they will eat a lot of it.
Children with PKU are on restricted diets. How do you deal with their curiosity about other foods that they can see other children are eating? Don’t they get curious about how other kinds of foods taste like?