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[quote=Anonymous]OP, a few years ago I attended a lecture from a pediatrician who specialized in tweens.  Here are my notes from the relevant part of her lecture:

"When you say NO, say it and then wait."

Let them leave the table and have the mood swing...then follow up with the explanation.  They need the time to process the mood, but they also need the rationale for the "no."

Tweens, unlike teens, actually want to learn from you and absorb what you have to offer. ("Now is the time to influence them")

Also, SHOWING works wonders, for example, the speaker is anti-Gatorade and Vitamin water, so she took the kids on the soccer team, got out the vitamin water and they all read the label.  Then they got an empty bottle and they filled it with all the sugar and artificial food coloring so the kids could see how bad for them it was.  Then she took out a bottle of Coke and they compared labels and found that they were practically the same! The kids stopped drinking the vitamin water.
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