The way Nina stares into the camera/at Rebecca makes me really uncomfortable. She's almost intimidating which is ridiculous at 4 but every video she posts of her performing like that feels like she's staring you out, then she does something like a weird movement or clinking the bowl with her class while staring into your soul and it almost feels like she's testing Rebecca, pushing her limits to see what gets a reaction. My kids the same age and I'd have serious concerns with her behaviour.
This! She scares the
tit out of me. She is so serious for a 4 year old!
My little girl is almost exactly the same age as Panini and that's how I found WhatMummyMakes initially. I tried a handful of recipes and they were all pretty awful (I'm a decent cook so I wouldn't say it was my cooking the actual recipes were all very bland and I followed them exactly). After about the 5th inedible meal (apart from the cornflake chicken which is brilliant but she didn't come up with that I'd made it before) I left the book in a cupboard and didn't bother with her again.
As my little girl got older - probably around age 3 by this point - I'd followed her Instagram for so long that I started to get really upset about things. My little girl didn't sit perfectly at the table every night and eat every single thing I cooked. She was brilliant during the weaning phase but after age 2 totally changed and she is really fussy. She doesn't eat any meat at all despite it being offered. She loves fruit and veg, but things like pasta, noodles, potatoes...wouldn't touch them. Every meal became stressful and I was making myself ill worrying about her. It sounds silly but constantly having perfect Nina and her perfect appetite had me in tears a fair few times.
In the end I had to unfollow her but recently my sister in law mentioned her as her little girl is now almost a year old. Her friend bought her the first book and she mentioned the other day how she had tried some recipes and they were awful. I explained to her I'd had a similar experience and unfollowed and she brought up how the relationship between Bex and Nini seems really intense.
She has no culinary qualifications, no dietary or child nutritional qualifications and she is clearly not healthy herself. How is she in a position to advise other parents? I'm so glad I found this thread actually because for ages I thought maybe I was just being overly sensitive because as amazing as our little girl is when it comes to her appetite its been a struggle. I can't stand Nina actually...is that awful? Maybe I'm just being awful but I looked at her page again and she just comes across a spoilt, creepy wee
tit.
Anyway I've rambled on like a mad woman...but she needs a good word with herself. Her recipes are manky anyway