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[quote=Anonymous]I am not a short-order cook, so I don't cook special meals.  I take my family's preferences into account and don't deliberately make a meal I expect they won't like, and I make a couple of sides or whatever, and I'll serve deconstructed version or put the heat/spice/etc. on the side or add it after serving the kids.  But I don't make a separate meal.

You have to take a no-thank you bite.

I do have the kids help choose and prepare meals, because I think that learning to cook is a good skill, because it's easier to put up with something you don't love if you know that you'll get to have some say in others, and because being more invested in the meal = eating more of it.

No dessert if you don't eat a reasonable dinner, because dessert isn't for filling up on.  It's a small post-dinner treat, not making up for missing a meal.

I don't make a big deal out of what they eat.  Never make it a power struggle.  There were things I didn't like as a kid/teen, which I learned to like as an adult.  I think it's about playing the long game.  [/quote]

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