No idea where this will land as I’m grunking and just got to this thread, but (not looking for sympathy, it just made me rage) my Mum used to lie about what was in things to make me eat them. I wasn’t a fussy eater, ate most things even if I didn’t like them but prawns made me gag. She used to put them in fish pie and triumphantly tell me I’d eaten them afterwards. I am pushing 30 now and maybe I should let it go but it’s not ok, really.
Also the most clunky, terrified around children OH wouldn’t think “hmm, flowers” for a child, of any age.