Not all children like chopped fruit and all children are different. I have two and one eats everything and the girl doesn't want anything, she is very picky eater, it doesn't depend on me because I cook for everyone equally. I imagine that as she gets older she will change and like you I also try to force her to eat, before she would eat the junk food (hot dogs) without the salad but now after so much insisting I put salad and she eats it. We have to keep insisting.