(Apologies for the long post ahead!): For the longest time my stepsister has been the most difficult person to feed vegetables to. EVER. I started living with her two years ago, and at the time she avoided vegetables like it was the plague. I’m not even kidding. She would literally whine and cry about not wanting to eat anything close to being a vegetable and I was so flabbergasted by her behavior. I came up with the conclusion that she was just young so I let it slide, but the thing that was bothering me was that her mom always caved in to her cries. My stepsis is known for being spoiled (emotionally) by her mother. I’m in college and I’m going to school to be a Nutritionist/Health Science major and I do my best to lead by example and eat healthy. Of course, being a college student contradicts the lifestyle I want to live and there are days I have to resort to eating unhealthy foods. Despite nothing being able to lead by example, I try to suggest eating vegetables to her during dinner. But she always has an excuse. She tries to convince me that she already ate vegetables. During lunch. YESTERDAY. Recently I’ve stopped trying to help get her to eat vegetables because her mother does nothing else to support her eating healthy, aside from “dieting” (her daughter sometimes thinks she needs to “diet” too!). I try so hard not to insult my stepmom, but apparently I am since my dad asked me to stop saying things at the dinner table because it “insults her mothering capabilities”. I really didn’t mean to be like that, but I guess I’m not good at getting the point across (obviously like this post, since it’s super long!) She’s already 10 and she still acts like a baby when it comes to eating vegetables, granted she’s gotten a little better (she’s willing a few bites, but any more and she’ll get defensive). Do you have any tips on getting older children to eat vegetables while not insulting her mother at the same time?