Kate Moss bribes her daughter to eat her vegetables
Categories: Kids 5-7, Eating & nutrition, Life & style, Celeb parenting, Mommy wars, That's entertainment, Mealtime
Kate Moss seems to have a few tricks up her designer sleeve when it comes to getting her daughter to eat her vegetables. The supermodel tells Glenn O'Brien in September's Interview magazine that she bribes her child into eating the less desirable foods by promising her access to her wardrobe when she's older. Seems ironic for the woman who was constantly at the center of a rumor tornado surrounding her alleged eating disorder.
Moss freely admits she "blackmails" daughter Lila Grace, 5, into eating the vegetables by telling her she'll get what Kate no longer wears when she's older. Can you imagine what this woman's closet looks like? I'd eat broken glass to get even a fraction of it! Moss tells her daughter if she doesn't eat her vegetables and finish her dinner she won't grow and she won't get the clothes. It's a deal I guess Kate can easily afford, being one of the most famous of the supermodels out there. I certainly couldn't promise my children much more than a couple of hairy dogs and a lot of well-loved maternity wear.
Both bloggers and commenters have long debated whether or not it's appropriate to bribe children into doing things that are good for them or that we want them to do. Eating vegetables is no exception. I'll tell you right now that, if I could, I would immediately bribe my seventeen-month-old into eating his vegetables--well, into eating anything other than fake sausage links and pirate booty. I can easily see how parents give in to it as a last resort. Question is, if it starts out as a last resort, how long before it becomes the standard?
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Sifrina 9-03-2008 @ 9:36PM
No one is a bigger briber than I am! I shamelessly pay for good report cards and a successful first swim across the pool with trips to Toys R Us. I am sure I have even paid to commission a couple of pieces of artwork for grandma and grandpa. Where I have dropped all bribing, cajoling, nagging, whining, pressuring is in the area of food. My pediatrician and husband convinced me early on that you can't afford to make food an issue. Ever. The risk of an eating disorder is too high these days. And as all parents know, pushing food rarely works: act nonchalant when they turn up their noses at the veggies and it's a non issue, but fuel their passion to fight back (by not eating) and it's all over - the family dinner will never be the happy healthful experience it should be and your children will likely have a liftetime of "eating issues." Parents - please don't push the food! There are plenty of emotionally healthy ways to get them to come around to having a positive attitude towards food.
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c_rousseau05 9-04-2008 @ 1:37AM
I'm not above bribing, but I haven't come to that stage yet. Right now i'm a sneaker...if my 12 month old won't eat her vegetables I sneak it into something sweet so that she will. My question is, which is worse? Bribing or sneaking? I think they are both bad but hey, you do what you gotta do so your kids will eat.
LOL@ eat broken glass to get at her closet!
As far as the ironic part because of Kate Moss's eating disorder...well, if she's anything like many parents out there including myself she realizes her own faults and tries to not put ideas or fears into her own children. My best friend's mother had an eating disorder but my best friend was always well fed and was always told to eat her food because it was good for her. I think her mom just didn't want her daughter to grow up like her and she wanted her daughter to love her own body and to treat food as a necessity for nutrition, not as something evil that will make you fat or a crutch to make you feel better and she turned out fine even though her mother still had problems.
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Kam Wilson 9-20-2008 @ 11:58PM
Well, that's a pretty big bribe :) Not sure her daughter appreciates it like some of us would. I like getting creative with foods so kids will eat them. Kids love food much more when it's fun.
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